DERBYSHIRE DALES COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE

Registered charity 1093087 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Derbyshire Dales CVS provides high quality information, advice, support, training and practical services to the voluntary and community sector in the Derbyshire Dales. The Charity also runs projects that benefit disadvantaged people in Derbyshire Dales and surrounding areas.

Objects

1. TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY PRIMARILY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICT OF DERBYSHIRE DALES (HEREINAFTER CALLED "THE AREA OF BENEFIT") AND, IN PARTICULAR, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS2. TO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO-OPERATION AND PARTNERSHIPS IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES AND TO THAT END TO BRING TOGETHER IN COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS AND STATUTORY AUTHORITIES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT

Area of benefit: PRIMARILY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICT OF DERBYSHIRE DALES

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £6,862 on unrestricted funds for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to a deficit of £22,111 in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, the total fund balances stood at £200,704, comprising £142,769 in unrestricted funds and £57,935 in restricted funds. The trustees confirmed that the reserves met their policy criteria, which aim to maintain a minimum of six months' core running costs.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04428280 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• ROBERTS, Christine Louise — director, appointed 30/05/2026on trustee list
• FURNESS, Timothy Peter — director, appointed 13/11/2025on trustee list
• FOWLER, Noel Paul — director, appointed 27/03/2025on trustee list
• FRANKS, Marilyn Amy, Cllr — director, appointed 13/07/2023on trustee list
• STANYER, Philip Allen — director, appointed 21/03/2019on trustee list
• TOWNSEND, Martin John — director, appointed 21/03/2013on trustee list
• TOWNSEND, Martin John — secretary, appointed 26/03/2025

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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 (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• MARTIN JOHN TOWNSENDchair
• Christine Louise Roberts
• Marilyn Amy Franks
• Noel Paul Fowler · trustee of 1 other charity
• Philip Allen Stanyer · trustee of 1 other charity
• Timothy Peter Furness · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Derbyshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• DERBYSHIRE VOLUNTARY ACTION income £691k
• DERBYSHIRE LAW CENTRE LTD income £1.3m
• NORTH HERTFORDSHIRE CENTRE FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE LIMITED income £916k
• SOUTH DERBYSHIRE CVS income £1.5m
• CUMBRIA COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £1.4m
• DERBYSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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