NORTH TYNESIDE VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY

Registered charity 1075060 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Advice, information, guidance and training to North Tyneside's voluntary and community sector, championing volunteers, empowering organisations and amplifying voices that matter most. Operate North Tyneside Volunteering Centre, targeted work for 11-25 year olds, borough wide volunteer led project work, and representation of VCSE Sector at all strategic boards at local, regional and national level.

Objects

The Charity is established to promote any charitable purposes for the benefit of the community in the borough of North Tyneside and, in particular, 1) the advancement of education, 2) the advancement of health, 3) the prevention or relief of poverty and 4) the advancement of community development; and in the furtherance of the said purposes, to promote and organise co-operation in the achievement of the same, by bringing together representatives of the voluntary organisations and statutory authorities and agencies.

Area of benefit: BOROUGH OF NORTH TYNESIDE.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £253,846 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £1,037,725 to £783,879. The trustees note that unrestricted reserves of £308,636 are below their stated policy target of six months of core running costs. Despite the deficit, the trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue operating on a going concern basis.

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 5 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (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: 19.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Burtenshaw
• Charlotte Humble
• DR Ray Lowry
• Maxine Tennet
• RICHARD HART
• Ruth Connorton

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

Operates in: North Tyneside

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS' NETWORK NORTH EAST.

• VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS' NETWORK NORTH EAST income £1.2m
• NORTH HERTFORDSHIRE CENTRE FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE LIMITED income £916k
• SUTTON BOROUGH VOLUNTEER BUREAU income £1.0m
• PETERBOROUGH COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £655k
• COMMUNITY ACTION NORTHUMBERLAND income £886k
• WANDSWORTH COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT NETWORK income £914k

Side by side with its peers

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