VALLEY CIDS AND RELATED CHARITIES

Registered charity 1123173 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Money is raised through income from charity shops and donations. This enables the charity to employ youth and children's workers to work in schools, youth clubs and the local community. The charity works mainly in Derbyshire.

Objects

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The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted free reserves were £531,549, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of six weeks of expenditure (£608,224). The charity reported a surplus for the year and maintains a stable core revenue stream from charity shop trading, leading the trustees to conclude that the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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
• Volunteer management

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: Other trading activities (57% 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: 70.5% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/10/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• PETER RICHARD WHITAKERchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• BRIAN JOHN CUPPLES · trustee of 1 other charity
• DOROTHY MARY WHITAKER · trustee of 2 other charities
• David Howe · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr NICOLA JOY HAMBLEY
• Jane Potter
• Rev Jonathan Roger Wilson Brook · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Derbyshire · Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

Common questions

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 THE SID VALE ASSOCIATION CIO.

• THE SID VALE ASSOCIATION CIO income £319k
• VALEHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTRE income £234k
• LEAGUE OF FRIENDS, ROYAL DERBY HOSPITAL income £575k
• ST JAMES' CENTRE (DERBY) income £1.2m
• DENNIS WISE IN THE COMMUNITY income £282k
• HORNSEA DISTRICT LIONS CLUB income £167k

Side by side with its peers

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