HALTON AND ST HELENS VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY ACTION

Registered charity 1106001 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HALTON AND ST HELENS VCA, ST HELENS DISTRICT COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE

A local support organisation, it builds the capacity of voluntary and community organisations and promotes co-operation and partnership working between third sector, statutory and other relevant bodies. Projects across both boroughs include volunteer centres, training, funding advice, network support, health and social care involvement and a community accountancy service.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, PRINCIPALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF HALTON AND ST HELENS AND ITS ENVIRONS (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE "AREA OF BENEFIT"), AND IN PARTICULAR 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. 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

Area of benefit: HALTON AND ST HELENS

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

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by JS. Audit Limited. Discloses 4 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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 02539153

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.

• HOUGHTON, Annmarie — director, appointed 13/12/2024on trustee list
• HOWARTH, Emma Elizabeth — director, appointed 23/10/2023on trustee list
• POWELL, John Robert — director, appointed 16/12/2022on trustee list
• COGLEY, Lisa — director, appointed 24/09/2018on trustee list
• MEREDITH, Pamela Katherine — director, appointed 09/10/2012on trustee list
• FRY, Michael — director, appointed 13/10/2010not on trustee list
• PATEL, Hiteshkumar Nathubhai — director, appointed 13/10/2010not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (93% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (26/11/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• AnnMarie Houghton
• Emma Elizabeth Howarth
• Lisa Cogley
• MR HITESH PATEL
• MR MIKE FRY
• PAMELA MEREDITH

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

Operates in: Halton · St Helens

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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Side by side with its peers

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