GWENT ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS
Registered charity 1113558 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register
To support Voluntary Organisations by providing the following services; information, advice, training, mentoring, the recruitment of volunteers, community development services to assist in the development of other voluntary organisations and to develop new voluntary services where appropriate. To promote partnership work between statutory and voluntary organisations.
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a net incoming resource of £277,735 for the year, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £2,114,512. This figure significantly exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of approximately £650,000, which is designed to cover three months of unrestricted expenditure. The trustees confirmed that the financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis 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 Walter Hunter & Co Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
Leadership, per the charity’s website
Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.
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.
- KING, Rosalie Sian — director, appointed 22/01/2026on trustee list
- DAVID, Olakunle Olufemi — director, appointed 22/01/2026on trustee list
- DAVIES, Cariad — director, appointed 22/01/2026not on trustee list
- CUTHBERT, Jeffrey Hambley — director, appointed 22/01/2026on trustee list
- WATKINS, Lisa Victoria — director, appointed 22/01/2026on trustee list
- LEWIS, James Hugh — director, appointed 22/01/2026on trustee list
- WILLIAMS, Christine Alice — director, appointed 31/12/2025on trustee list
- LYNBECK, Robert — director, appointed 05/09/2025on trustee list
- DUTT, Robert Malcolm — director, appointed 29/12/2017on trustee list
- HAWKER, Christopher — director, appointed 08/12/2017on trustee list
- DAVY, Christine — director, appointed 08/12/2017on trustee list
Official officers record.
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Reported reserves equal ~9.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (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 (16/09/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Blaenau Gwent · Caerphilly · Monmouthshire · Newport City
Income and spending
Common questions
Is GWENT ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net incoming resource of £277,735 for the year, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £2,114,512. This figure significantly exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of approximately £650,000, which is designed to cover three months of unrestricted expenditure. The trustees confirmed that the financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Walter Hunter & Co Limited.
Who funds GWENT ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS?
Funders whose own accounts filings name GWENT ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS as a grant recipient include WALES COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY ACTION.
Shared trustees with funders
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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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Side by side with its peers
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