VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS' NETWORK NORTH EAST

Registered charity 1084083 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as VONNE

VONNE increases the effectiveness of the voluntary and community sector in the NE of England by developing networks, offering business support, providing information and communications to and about the sector, and advocating for the sector with statutory agencies and other partners.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £74,961, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of maintaining reserves sufficient to cover 6 to 12 months of running costs (with a target of 9 months). Despite a net expenditure of £723,343 driven by a 45% reduction in project income, the charity reports a strong cash position of £1,114,896 and confirms its continued financial sustainability.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BK Plus Audit Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Martin Brookes — Chief Executive (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• National Institute for Health and Care Research — “We are able to deliver this support through funding from NIHR organisations in the North East & North Cumbria who recognise the value of gro…” (source page)

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (87% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Dunnchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Adam Hill
• Angela Louise Brudenell
• Carol Gaskarth
• Cheryl Ann Gavin
• Colin Thompson Hewitt · trustee of 1 other charity
• Craig Henderson
• Emma Howitt
• Modupe Ayodeji Michael Fawole · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter Neal · trustee of 1 other charity
• Shaun Newton · trustee of 4 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England

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 NORTH TYNESIDE VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY.

• NORTH TYNESIDE VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY income £876k
• THE JEWISH VOLUNTEERING NETWORK income £426k
• GWENT ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS income £3.0m
• COMMUNITY SOUTHWARK income £1.2m
• NOTTINGHAM COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £1.6m
• SOUTHEND ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTARY SERVICES income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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