CORNWALL VOLUNTARY SECTOR FORUM

Registered charity 1111169 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as VOLUNTARY SECTOR FORUM, VSF

Cornwall VSF is an umbrella body for all community and voluntary organisations working or based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. It tries to act as the voice of the local third sector and provides advocacy, brokerage, communication and development services for charities and other not-for-profit organisations.

Objects

2.1 The Charity's objects throughout the County of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly are the promotion of the VCSE Sector for the benefit of the public including but not limited to:(a) liaising between VCSE Organisations, statutory agencies and other groups on relevant issues;(b) co-ordinating and facilitating partnership working and service delivery between VCSE Organisations, statutory agencies and other relevant groups (including as but not limited to the Charity acting as accountable body in connection with commissioning activity in the VCSE Sector);(c) providing training, conferences and seminars on subjects relevant to the efficiency of the VCSE sector;(d) identifying needs in the VCSE sector and establishing projects or policies to address them;(e) providing information to the press and the public on the operation of, or problems encountered by, the VCSE sector;(f) providing support services and guidance to and for the VCSE Sector;(g) providing advice and information on fundraising techniques appropriate for VCSE Organisations; and(h) acting as a representative of the VCSE Sector in relation to steering government policies and legislation.

Area of benefit: CORNWALL AND THE ISLES OF SCILLY.

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

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £3,768,193 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds of £6,072,829. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £267,545, which is above the stated minimum policy target of £187,500. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting was appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by TC Group. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £70,001 - £80,000 (FY2024) to £60,001 - £70,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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 (18/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/04/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Melanie Colton-Dyerchair
• Ellie Trebilcock
• Kate Reed
• Keith Mitchell
• Rebecca Wilton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Samantha Kate Southey
• Samuel Peter Hudspith
• Tracey Jane Lee

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

Operates in: Cornwall · Isles Of Scilly

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with VOLUNTEER CORNWALL.

• VOLUNTEER CORNWALL income £2.4m
• THE CORNWALL BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED ASSOCIATION income £511k
• CORNWALL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £5.0m
• CORNWALL CARE LIMITED income £34.6m
• CYMDEITHAS GWASANAETHAU GWIRFODDOL SIR GAR / CARMARTHENSHIRE ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTARY SERVICES income £752k
• THE CARE FORUM income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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