CUMBRIA COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE

Registered charity 1119671 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Infrastructure support for the third sector in Cumbria.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £109,996 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total net assets. While unrestricted cash reserves of £311,952 were below the minimum policy threshold of £175,000, the trustees confirmed the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dodd & Co Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Carolyn Otley — Chief Executive (source)
• Sheila Gregory — Chair (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (55% 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).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Catherine Jane Bird
• Charles Watt
• JONATHAN RUSH · trustee of 1 other charity
• Joanne Sandra Crozier
• Linda Margaret Vance
• Marc Ernest Goodwin
• Philippa Anne Elizabeth Clare
• Sheila Gregory · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sonny David Smith

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

Operates in: Cumbria

Income and spending

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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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with VOLUNTARY ACTION CUMBRIA.

• VOLUNTARY ACTION CUMBRIA income £914k
• Futureproof Cumbria income £1.8m
• ANTI RACIST CUMBRIA income £538k
• CITIZENS ADVICE CUMBRIA income £286k
• YORK CENTRE FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £1.7m
• DERBYSHIRE DALES COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £404k

Side by side with its peers

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