SOUTH DERBYSHIRE CVS

Registered charity 1101450 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

South Derbyshire CVS is committed to the promotion and development of voluntary action within the area of South Derbyshire by providing support to groups and individuals, encouraging partnerships and collaboration, celebrating diversity and challenging bad practice and discrimination.

Objects

A) TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF SOUTH DERBYSHIRE SOUTH DERBYSHIRE (HEREINAFTER CALLED "THE AREA OF BENEFIT") AND, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE ADVANCEMENT, PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS;B) TO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO-OPERATION IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES AND TO THAT END TO BRING TOGETHER IN COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND STATUTORY AUTHORITIES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICT OF SOUTH DERBYSHIRE

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a slight surplus for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total incoming resources of £1,533,925 and total expenditure of £1,468,474. The trustees report that the charity remains financially viable and has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £129,754, with a stated policy to restore reserves to between 25% and 30% of expenditure over the next four years.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Wright Vigar Limited. 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04958843

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — South Derbyshire CVS (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• HARRIS, Tracey Louise — director, appointed 30/09/2026on trustee list
• SANGHERA, Rebena — director, appointed 05/09/2025on trustee list
• BROWN, David Jonathan — director, appointed 18/11/2024on trustee list
• DOWNS, Kevin — director, appointed 12/09/2022on trustee list
• GILLBE, Zoe Jane — director, appointed 17/11/2020on trustee list
• HOLLAND, Deborah Jane — director, appointed 17/11/2020on trustee list
• PARKINSON, Kevin Lee — director, appointed 17/11/2020on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (73% 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: 0.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Jonathan Brown
• Deborah Jane Holland
• Kevin Downs
• Kevin Lee Parkinson
• Rebena Sanghera
• Tracey Louise Harris
• Zoe Jane Gillbe

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

Operates in: Derbyshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 CVS SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE.

• CVS SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE income £274k
• DERBYSHIRE DALES COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £404k
• DERBYSHIRE VOLUNTARY ACTION income £691k
• Derbyshire Addictions Advice Service income £969k
• SWANSEA C V S income £3.2m
• COMMUNITY ACTION DERBY LTD income £3.1m

Side by side with its peers

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