Canterbury District Volunteer Centre LTD

Registered charity 1090620 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CANTERBURY AND HERNE BAY VOLUNTEER CENTRE LIMITED, CANTERBURY VOLUNTEER CENTRE LIMITED

The Canterbury and Herne Bay Volunteer Centre promotes and develops volunteering within the Canterbury District in all its many facets including both the support of volunteers and organisations who utilise volunteers.We also undertake projects, utilising volunteers, for the benefit of the local community and responding to local need.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER VOLUNTEERS AND ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, PROTECT HEALTH, RELIEVE POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS.

Area of benefit: CANTERBURY, KENT

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Canterbury, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £8,286 for the year ended 31 March 2026, with total unrestricted funds of £101,725. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains a reserves policy targeting three to twelve months of operating expenditure, though the specific monetary threshold for this policy is not explicitly calculated in the filing. The trustees confirmed that the charity can continue to adopt the going concern basis due to available resources and mitigation measures.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04176994

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• BALL, Gillian Rosemary — director, appointed 13/09/2022on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Adrian — director, appointed 13/09/2022on trustee list
• ADAMS, Hilary Janet — director, appointed 18/03/2007on trustee list
• CLEVERLEY, Huw Rhys, Dr — director, appointed 18/03/2007on trustee list
• KRUTNIK, Alexander Maxim — secretary, appointed 01/02/2006

Official officers record.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr HUW RHYS CLEVERLEYchair
• Adrian Williams
• Gillian Rosemary Ball
• Hilary Janet Adams · trustee of 9 other charities

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 VOLUNTEER CENTRE HACKNEY.

• VOLUNTEER CENTRE HACKNEY income £1.2m
• PERSHORE AND DISTRICT VOLUNTEER CENTRE income £143k
• VOLUNTEER CENTRE KENSINGTON & CHELSEA income £630k
• CAMDEN VOLUNTEER BUREAU income £261k
• VOLUNTEER CENTRE DORSET income £492k
• CANTERBURY FOOD BANK income £372k

Side by side with its peers

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