ASSOCN OF CHIEF EXECUTIVES OF VOL ORGS - ACEVO

Registered charity 1114591 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ACEVO, ASSOCN OF CHIEF EXECUTIVES OF NATIONAL VOL ORGS - ACENVO

ACEVO is the UK's largest network for Charity and Social Enterprise Leaders. For nearly 30 years, we have provided support, development and an inspiring, collective campaigning voice for our members across the UK, the leaders of small, community based groups, ambitious medium-sized organisations, and well known, well-loved national and international not-for-profits.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a total deficit of £115,789 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total net assets to £527,146. The trustees maintain that the organization is in a strong position to continue as a going concern, citing unrestricted free reserves of £396,254 which fall within their stated prudent policy target of three to five months of planned expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03514635
• Trading subsidiary: ACEVO SOLUTIONS LIMITED Companies House 07194347

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jane Ide — Chief executive (source)

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.

• MOLE, Catherine — director, appointed 30/03/2026on trustee list
• WILKINSON, Rebecca — director, appointed 30/03/2026on trustee list
• AIKENS, Jonathan Alexander — director, appointed 14/05/2025on trustee list
• NORBURY, Mark John — director, appointed 26/11/2024on trustee list
• TOWNSEND, Jools — director, appointed 14/01/2024on trustee list
• ATKINSON, Sarah Elizabeth — director, appointed 14/01/2024on trustee list
• LOCKWOOD, Kye Mark — director, appointed 14/01/2024on trustee list
• IDE, Jane — director, appointed 23/05/2022on trustee list
• HESLOP, Neil — director, appointed 03/12/2020on trustee list
• IQBAL, Rashid Tahir — director, appointed 03/12/2020on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (80% 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: 14.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mark Norburychair
• Catherine Mole · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jane Ide · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jonathan Alexander Aikens
• Jools Townsend
• Kye Lockwood
• Neil Heslop · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rashid Iqbal
• Rebecca Wilkinson
• Sarah Atkinson

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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 THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS.

• THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS income £9.5m
• ANDOVER COMMUNITY ENGAGE income £183k
• SANDWELL COUNCIL OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS (S.C.V.O.) income £1.6m
• GREATER MANCHESTER CENTRE FOR VOLUNTARY ORGANISATION income £3.3m
• CYMDEITHAS MUDIADAU GWIRFODDOL CEREDIGION / CEREDIGION ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS income £922k
• THE SOCIETY OF LOCAL AUTHORITY CHIEF EXECUTIVES AND SENIOR MANAGERS (SOLACE GROUP) LTD income £10.8m

Side by side with its peers

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