VOLUNTARY ACTION MERTHYR TYDFIL

Registered charity 1118403 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide a unique, quality service which supports, represents and helps develop third sector organisations and volunteering in the County Borough of Merthyr Tydfil

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE COUNTY BOROUGH OF MERTHYR TYDFIL AS DEFINED IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT (WALES) ACT 1994 AND SURROUNDING AREA ("THE AREA OF BENEFIT") AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE FURTHERANCE OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS.

Area of benefit: THE COUNTY BOROUGH OF MERTHYR TYDFIL AS DEFINED IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT (WALES) ACT 1994 AND SURROUNDING AREA

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Merthyr Tydfil, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £115,322 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted funds totaling £1,004,364. The trustees consider there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. The charity remains reliant on annually renewed funding agreements, prompting a cautious approach to planning and reserve protection.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by RCH Accountants 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
• 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

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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sharon Richards — Chief Officer (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• South Wales Police Youth Trust — “VAMT is hosting a Meet the Funder session with South Wales Police Youth Trust” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~11.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/11/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/05/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carol Evans
• Dr Victoria Winckler
• Gareth Gerwyn Marshall
• Julia Burgess
• Kayleigh Anne Nor-val
• Michael Ronan
• NICOLA BARBARA MAHONEY
• Ryan James · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Merthyr Tydfil

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 CANCER AID MERTHYR TYDFIL LTD.

• CANCER AID MERTHYR TYDFIL LTD income £198k
• SAFER MERTHYR TYDFIL LIMITED income £2.8m
• WARRINGTON VOLUNTARY ACTION income £987k
• HEREFORDSHIRE VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS SUPPORT SERVICE income £619k
• MERTHYR TYDFIL CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.5m
• MERTHYR TYDFIL LEISURE TRUST LIMITED income £4.2m

Side by side with its peers

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