VOLUNTARY ACTION RUTLAND

Registered charity 1123653 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote any charitable purposes for the benefit of the community in Rutland & its neighbourhood & in particular, the advancement of education, the protection of health & the relief of poverty, distress & sickness.

Objects

A)TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICT OF RUTLAND AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD (HEREINAFTER CALLED "THE AREA OF BENEFIT") AND , IN PARTICULAR, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESSB) TO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO-OPERATION IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES AND TO THAT END TO BRING TOGETHER IN COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND STATUTORY AUTHORITIES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT

Area of benefit: LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICT OF RUTLAND AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD

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 · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free unrestricted reserves decreased by 14% to £197,333, while total charity funds remained stable at approximately £1.06 million. The trustees maintain a reserves policy target of holding between 50% and 75% of operating expenditure, with current reserves covering 72% of annual operating expenditure. The charity reports adequate resources for going concern purposes and holds significant designated investment funds of £860,285.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Voluntary Action Rutland (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carsten Pigottchair
• ARTHUR SAINS NDA CDA
• Jeremy Millar
• Sarah Press
• Stewart MacDonald
• Una Ozga

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

Operates in: Rutland

Income and spending

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

• VOLUNTARY ACTION CUMBRIA income £914k
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• HARTLEPOOL UNITED COMMUNITY SPORTS FOUNDATION income £199k
• THE FITZWILLIAM WENTWORTH AMENITY TRUST income £2.1m
• Leicestershire and Rutland Freemasons' Charity (LRFC) income £119k
• SUTTON BOROUGH VOLUNTEER BUREAU income £1.0m

Side by side with its peers

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