HEREFORDSHIRE VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS SUPPORT SERVICE

Registered charity 1096451 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HEREFORDSHIRE COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE, HEREFORDSHIRE VOLUNTARY ACTION

To build the capacity of third sector organisations and provide them with support, information and services including: -Advancement of community health and social care and activities for young people aged 8 to 25. Activities include volunteering services, capacity building, training, networking events and information, interest groups, policy research, Community Wheels and representational work

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 accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £43,670 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total reserves amounting to £328,348. The trustees note that the charity faces fundraising uncertainty, particularly following the end of a key contract with Herefordshire Council, and have utilized reserves to sustain activities. Despite these pressures, the trustees confirm the charity is a going concern and believe its current free reserves are sufficient to continue activities in the short term should funding drop significantly.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kendall Wadley LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Herefordshire Voluntary Organisations Support Service (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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: 4.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/08/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (26/04/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• LYNDA WILCOXchair
• ANNE CONSTANCE ROBINSON
• David Andrew Tristram
• Judith Faux
• RICHARD STEPHEN KELLY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Suzanne Penny · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Herefordshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).