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Registered charity 1092567 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CCVS, COLCHESTER COMMUNITY VOLUNTARY SERVICES

To act as an umbrella organisation to the voluntary sector in Colchester and the neighbourhood.To promote voluntary action and participation through its networks, newsletter, information and services including a Community Accounts Service, Transport and Shopmobility Scheme.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £857,635 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a significant reduction in cash reserves. The trustees identified limited liquidity and noted that without intervention, the charity may not hold sufficient unrestricted cash to meet all anticipated outflows, though they concluded there are no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Lovewell Blake LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (70% 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 (23/04/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (27/10/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/06/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/04/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/01/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (28/08/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ralph Cookchair
• Anthea Hockly · trustee of 1 other charity
• Carol Anne Slade
• Francis Perera
• Karen Elizabeth Bellerby
• Luke O'Reilly
• Salma Ahmed

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COMMUNITY ACTION NORTHUMBERLAND.

• COMMUNITY ACTION NORTHUMBERLAND income £886k
• COLCHESTER ISLAMIC COMMUNITY CENTRE income £223k
• MANCHESTER COMMUNITY CENTRAL income £2.2m
• The Neath Port Talbot Community Voluntary Service Limited income £1.7m
• CITIZENS ADVICE COLCHESTER income £294k
• COMMUNITY SOUTHWARK income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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