NORTH DEVON VOLUNTARY SERVICES LIMITED

Registered charity 1133707 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

North Devon Voluntary Services is the Council for Voluntary Service (CVS) and Volunteer Centre (VC) for North Devon. We are an infrastructure organisation providing services to support development and capacity building within voluntary and community groups and assist with the recruitment and placement of volunteers.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds decreased from £204,668 to £183,961, a reduction of £20,707, driven by increased staffing costs and project expenditures. The trustees report that these reserves remain in line with their revised policy target of covering 12 months of operation, and the independent examiner confirmed the accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties.

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 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06934618

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• PRATT, Donald James — director, appointed 26/07/2024on trustee list
• JOHNSON, Mark James — director, appointed 07/05/2024on trustee list
• HUMPHREYS, Clare Louise — director, appointed 24/04/2023on trustee list
• MASON, David Johnstone — director, appointed 06/06/2022on trustee list
• ALLEN, John William — director, appointed 27/04/2021on trustee list
• WILKES, Jonathan Francis — director, appointed 18/06/2009not on trustee list
• PEDLEY, Diane May — director, appointed 18/06/2009on trustee list
• MASON, David Johnstone — secretary, appointed 07/03/2024

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• John William Allenchair
• Clare Humphreys
• DIANE MAY PEDLEY
• David Johnstone Mason · trustee of 1 other charity
• Donald James Pratt
• MR JON WILKES
• Mark James Johnson

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).