Community Alliance Broxbourne and East Herts
Registered charity 1118986 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COMMUNITY VOLUNTARY SERVICES BROXBOURNE AND EAST HERTS, COMMUNITY VOLUNTARY SERVICES FOR BROXBOURNE AND EAST HERTS, COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICES BROXBOURNE AND EAST HERTS
Community Alliance Broxbourne and East Herts provides a range of capacity-building services to the voluntary and community sector in Broxbourne and East Herts, including training, funding advice, newsletters and e-bulletins, networking opportunities and signposting to local resources.
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £226,738 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total reserves from £795,515 to £568,777. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with unrestricted reserves of £246,089 held at year-end. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: three months of core expenditure (held: £246k)
“It is the policy of the charity that free reserves should be maintained at a level equivalent to at least three month's core expenditure.” — page 7
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Gowers Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
Year-over-year changes
- Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 0 (FY2025).
Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Chris Dungate — Chief Executive Officer (source)
- Susan Lankester — Deputy 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.
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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Reported reserves equal ~1.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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).
- Stephen Harveychair
- Andrew Cooke
- Beverley Anne Johnston
- Diana Yip
- Janice Irene Wing BSC · trustee of 2 other charities
- KEITH BATCHELOR
- PETER MAIDEN
- Stephen John Clarke
- Victoria Ann Shorland Jacob
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Throughout England
Income and spending
Common questions
Is Community Alliance Broxbourne and East Herts financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £226,738 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total reserves from £795,515 to £568,777. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with unrestricted reserves of £246,089 held at year-end. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Gowers Limited.
Who funds Community Alliance Broxbourne and East Herts?
Funders whose own accounts filings name Community Alliance Broxbourne and East Herts as a grant recipient include LOCAL TRUST.
Known funders
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Government & lottery funding
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