MALDON AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY VOLUNTARY SERVICE

Registered charity 1086460 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MALDON AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY VOLUNTARY SERVICE, MALDON AND DISTRICT COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE

M&DCVS aims to promote any charitable purposes for the benefit of the community in the district of Maldon. We support over 200 voluntary and community groups, offering services such as funding advice, training support and advice on legal and constitutional issues. As a Volunteer Centre, we also support anyone interested in volunteering and help them to identify volunteering opportunities.

Objects

(A) TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICT OF MALDON AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD AND, IN PARTICULAR, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE 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 IN COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND STATUTORY AUTHORITIES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: MALDON AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus for the year, with total funds increasing to £347,429. Free reserves stood at £137,541, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of £80,650. The accounts were subject to independent examination rather than audit, with no material uncertainties identified regarding going concern.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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 profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/12/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr SARA KETTELEYchair
• Clare McLean
• Gerard Willsher
• Graham Bradford
• Leanne Betmead
• Richard Walton
• Scott Faithfull
• Trevor John Drury

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MANSFIELD COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY SERVICE (CVS).

• MANSFIELD COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY SERVICE (CVS) income £345k
• COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE (MEDWAY) income £873k
• HULL COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY SERVICES LTD income £2.2m
• MERTON VOLUNTARY SERVICE COUNCIL income £1.6m
• CHELMSFORD COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £466k
• DUDLEY COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £3.4m

Side by side with its peers

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