THE CENTRE FOR INNOVATION IN VOLUNTARY ACTION

Registered charity 1122095 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The promotion of social entrepreneurship and support for social entrepreneurs in the UK and worldwide, plus the creation and support of new projects run which are by young people for young people to address their needs and concerns.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £154,963 for the year, with total incoming resources of £1,150,179 against expenditure of £1,032,084. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £575,593, which is well in excess of the stated policy target of £60,000. The charity relies heavily on its Honorary Director, a key person risk that trustees are actively managing through succession planning.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £90,001 - £100,000 (FY2023) to Under £60,000 (FY2024).
• Employees paid over £60,000: 2 (FY2023) → 0 (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Centre For Innovation In Voluntary Action (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Michael Norton — Honorary Director (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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~6.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

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 (10/12/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Nicola Pollockchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Deborah Sharon Taylor
• Erica Ruth Neve
• HENRY WARREN
• Jonathan Samuel Saverimuttu · trustee of 1 other charity
• MICHAEL NORTON
• MR DAVE MILLER
• Marie-Mathilde Suberbere
• Mr Richard Vincenzo Scott

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

Operates in: China · Hong Kong · India · Northern Ireland · Scotland · South Africa · Throughout England And Wales

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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Side by side with its peers

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