LEICESTERSHIRE VOLUNTARY SECTOR RESOURCE AGENCY

Registered charity 1072595 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COMMUNITIES IN PARTNERSHIP

Encourages individuals and organisations to work in partnership to build stronger, safer and better communities - under the banners of Reaching People and CIP ( Communities in Partnership). Supports, involves and enables individuals, communities and organisations to influence and improve, planning and delivery of services. Provides services for the VCS to develop and improve.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE COUNTIES OF LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND, AND THE CITY OF LEICESTER, AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND FURTHERANCE OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS, SICKNESS AND TO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO-OPERATION IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THESE PURPOSES

Area of benefit: LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND, AND THE CITY OF LEICESTER

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a small surplus of £11,042 for the year ended 31 March 2025, despite sector-wide funding challenges. The trustees report that prudent financial management and diversified funding streams have strengthened the charity's resilience. Total reserves stood at £174,574, with unrestricted reserves of £20,000 and designated reserves of £147,974.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03576786 · Financial health read from its filings

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• BARNARD, Alison Josephine, Dr — director, appointed 11/02/2026on trustee list
• CHUBB, Henrietta Joscelyne — director, appointed 16/10/2024on trustee list
• DAVIS, Marie — director, appointed 16/10/2024on trustee list
• WATERFIELD, Tracey — director, appointed 23/08/2024on trustee list
• KALA, Kiran — director, appointed 23/08/2024on trustee list
• HAND, Jennifer Susan — director, appointed 26/11/2021on trustee list
• CHAHAL, Elizabeth Jane — director, appointed 26/11/2021on trustee list
• SURTEES, Miriam Jervis — director, appointed 27/10/2009on trustee list
• SURTEES, Miriam Jervis — secretary, appointed 26/11/2021

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/02/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jennifer Susan Handchair
• Dr Alison Josephine Barnard
• Elizabeth Chahal
• Henrietta Chubb
• Kiran Kala
• MIRIAM SURTEES
• Marie Davis
• Tracey Waterfield

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Leicester City · Leicestershire · Rutland

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LEICESTERSHIRE, LEICESTER AND RUTLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

• LEICESTERSHIRE, LEICESTER AND RUTLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £702k
• COMMUNITY PEOPLE MID SUSSEX income £446k
• LINCOLNSHIRE COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £1.7m
• LANCASHIRE ASSOCIATION OF COUNCILS FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £150k
• LEICESTER CITY FOOTBALL CLUB TRUST LIMITED income £2.0m
• THE RICHMOND UPON THAMES COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £335k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.