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

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ('THE OBJECTS') ARE TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, PRINCIPALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF HEREFORDSHIRE AND ELSEWHERE (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE “AREA OF BENEFIT”) AND, IN PARTICULAR1) BUILD THE CAPACITY OF THIRD SECTOR ORGANISATIONS AND PROVIDE THEM WITH THE NECESSARY SUPPORT, INFORMATION AND SERVICES TO ENABLE THEM TO PURSUE OR CONTRIBUTE TO ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE. 2) TO PROMOTE, ORGANISE AND FACILITATE CO-OPERATION AND PARTNERSHIP WORKING BETWEEN THIRD SECTOR, STATUTORY AND OTHER RELEVANT BODIES IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.3) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THOSE INVOLVED WITH THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR IN THE FIELD OF COMMUNITY HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE.4) TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE OBJECTS AND PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF YOUNG PEOPLE AGED 8 TO 25 RESIDENT OR BORN IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT INCLUDING BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY’.

Area of benefit: THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICT OF HEREFORDSHIRE 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

Registered contact address: Herefordshire, County of, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

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
• Alison Emma Denning
• David Andrew Tristram
• Judith Faux
• Lucy Ann Hurds
• RICHARD STEPHEN KELLY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rachel Zoe Hankins · 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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with STAFFORDSHIRE COUNCIL OF VOLUNTARY YOUTH SERVICES.

• STAFFORDSHIRE COUNCIL OF VOLUNTARY YOUTH SERVICES income £526k
• SALFORD COMMUNITY & VOLUNTARY SERVICES income £6.4m
• HEREFORDSHIRE VETERANS SUPPORT CENTRE income £162k
• COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE income £654k
• HEREFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £949k
• HESSLE ROAD NETWORK income £326k

Side by side with its peers

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