MERTON VOLUNTARY SERVICE COUNCIL

Registered charity 1085867 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MERTON VOLUNTARY SERVICE COUNCIL LTD.

Practical support to voluntary and community organisations, laison and advocacy, community engagement, development, standard setting, strategic partnership working and fund management.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating deficit of £122,722 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total reserves from £1,403,021 to £1,280,299. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves of £255,778 remain above the stated policy target of £194,000, providing a buffer to manage future financial risks. The trustees note that the primary risk to the business is the uncertainty surrounding long-term core funding from the local authority.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kingston Burrowes Audit Ltd. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from over £75,000 (FY2024) to £70,001 - £80,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.2 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 (96% 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).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/03/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (30/06/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/07/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Asha Newsum
• Jennifer Mary Goddard
• Judith Brodie
• Karen Louise Peck
• Omar Talal Daair
• Preeya Parmar
• Simon Hughes

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

Operates in: Merton

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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YORK CENTRE FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE.

• YORK CENTRE FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £1.7m
• STAFFORDSHIRE COUNCIL OF VOLUNTARY YOUTH SERVICES income £526k
• GLAMORGAN VOLUNTARY SERVICES income £1.1m
• West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO income £478k
• THE RICHMOND UPON THAMES COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £335k
• COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE (MEDWAY) income £873k

Side by side with its peers

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