BASINGSTOKE VOLUNTARY ACTION

Registered charity 1077442 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BASINGSTOKE VOLUNTARY SERVICES

Basingstoke Voluntary Action is an umbrella organisation for Community and Voluntary Organisations in the Basingstoke and Deane Borough, providing information training and advice to promote support and develop voluntary action.

Objects

A) TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICT AND BOROUGH OF BASINGSTOKE AND DEAN AND ITS SURROUNDING DISTRICTS INCLUDING ALL DISTRICTS OF HAMPSHIRE (HEREINAFTER CALLED "THE AREA OF BENEFIT") AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS.B) TO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO-OPERATION IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES AND TO THAT END TO BRING TOGETHER REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS ENGAGED IN THE FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT. PROVIDED THAT, IN CARRYING THESE CHARITABLE PURPOSES, THE CHARITY WILL SEEK TO CHALLENGE ALL FORMS OF OPPRESSION AND INEQUALITY AND GIVE PRIORITY TO WORKING WITH PEOPLE WHOSE FULL PARTICIPATION IN SOCIETY IS LIMITED BY ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DISADVANTAGE.C) TO BE SO CONSTITUTED AND ADMINISTERED IN THAT IT IS AT NO TIME (FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND HOUSING ACT 1989) UNDER THE CONTROL OR SUBJECT TO THE INFLUENCE OF A LOCAL AUTHORITY

Area of benefit: ALL DISTRICTS OF HAMPSHIRE

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds were £132,214, which is below the stated reserves policy target of six months of unrestricted expenditure. The charity reported a net deficit on activity of £52,092 for the year, though total net assets remained positive at £533,362.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Basingstoke Voluntary Action (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 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 (63% 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 (06/03/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Francesca Delfina Maritan-Hawkinschair
• Alan Thorpe
• Anna Rosalind Scott
• Dr Shirlene Marie Noel Ying Fei Oh
• Gauri Narang
• Jonathan Paul Bernhard Brewin
• Susan Elsie Brown

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BASINGSTOKE GYMNASTICS CLUB.

• BASINGSTOKE GYMNASTICS CLUB income £1.6m
• BASINGSTOKE AND DISTRICT COUNSELLING SERVICE income £429k
• BASINGSTOKE WEST DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £104k
• THE BASINGSTOKE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU LIMITED income £488k
• HASTINGS VOLUNTARY ACTION income £963k
• THE BASINGSTOKE CANAL SOCIETY income £119k

Side by side with its peers

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