VOLUNTEER FRIENDS

Registered charity 1098366 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NBVB, NUNEATON & BEDWORTH VOLUNTEER BUREAU, VOLUNTEER CENTRE - NUNEATON & BEDWORTH

Volunteer Centre - Nuneaton & Bedworth is a local Volunteer Development infrastructure agency supporting individual volunteers and the local volunteer involving organisations from voluntary, public, private and community sector.Core activities focus on the recruitment, placement and support of volunteers across the local community.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL INHABITANTS IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER VOLUNTEERS AND ORGANIZATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, PROTECT HEALTH, RELIEVE POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AND ADVANCE ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE. FOR THESE PURPOSES BUT NOT OTHERWISE THE COMPANY SHALL:I. ADVISE AND GUIDE PERSONS WILLING TO VOLUNTEER.II. PROVIDE A CENTRE.III. ADVISE AND GUIDE ORGANISATIONS REGARDING ISSUES RELATING TO THE RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF VOLUNTEERS.IV. PUBLICISE OPPORTUNITIES FOR VOLUNTEERING WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.V. PROMOTE VOLUNTEERING AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITY BY RECRUITING, MOTIVATING, SUPPORTING AND ENABLING THOSE INDIVIDUALS IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT TO TAKE A FULLER PART IN SOCIETY, TO TAKE GREATER CONTROL OVER THEIR LIVES AND TO INCREASE THEIR OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT.

Area of benefit: WITHIN THE BOROUGHS OF NUNEATON AND BEDWORTH

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with unrestricted reserves of £165,825, which is above the designated Exit Costs Reserve target of £35,000. The trustees report that financial sustainability was strengthened by lottery grants and fundraising, guaranteeing support for the next few years.

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 6 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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 04609837

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.

• DUDLEY, Paul John William — director, appointed 16/02/2026on trustee list
• SMITH, Laura Susan — director, appointed 13/04/2023on trustee list
• MONAGHAN, Paul — director, appointed 20/01/2022on trustee list
• SNOW, Lynne Rosemary — director, appointed 26/06/2020on trustee list
• WILLIAMSON, Donna Suzanne — director, appointed 01/03/2019on trustee list
• SMITH, Richard Thomas — director, appointed 10/01/2017on trustee list
• SMITH, Richard — secretary, appointed 19/01/2017

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Donna Suzanne Williamson
• Laura Susan Smith
• Lynne Snow
• Paul John William Dudley
• Paul Monaghan
• Richard Smith

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

Operates in: Warwickshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BEDWORTH, RUGBY AND NUNEATON CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU.

• BEDWORTH, RUGBY AND NUNEATON CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.2m
• THE VOLUNTEER CENTRE- CHESTERFIELD AND NORTH EAST DERBYSHIRE income £164k
• VOLUNTEER CENTRE KENSINGTON & CHELSEA income £630k
• NEW MILLS AND DISTRICT VOLUNTEER CENTRE income £174k
• NUNEATON FOODBANK income £111k
• THE CENTRE PLACE income £308k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.