FOREST VOLUNTARY ACTION FORUM

Registered charity 1141126 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FVAF

Forest Voluntary Action Forum is the volunteering and voluntary sector support and development agency for the Forest of Dean district in Gloucestershire. We provide advice, information, training, volunteer brokerage, networking opportunities and advocate for / represent the sector both locally and across the County. We undertake and support a variety of local community projects.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £723,322 exceed the trustees' mid-range target of £582,000 and are nearing the upper limit of £875,000. The charity reported total income of £836,556 and charitable expenditure of £756,340, resulting in a net asset position of £927,011. The trustees confirm that immediate risks are low and mitigated through the allocation of sufficient reserves.

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07557852

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.

• LE ROLLAND, Patricia Anne — director, appointed 08/06/2026not on trustee list
• TOOMER, Robert James — director, appointed 13/01/2026on trustee list
• BOND, Joshua — director, appointed 09/06/2025on trustee list
• MARTIN, Elizabeth Diana — director, appointed 12/11/2021on trustee list
• DEEKS, Roger — director, appointed 07/12/2020on trustee list
• GAULT, Jonathan James Leslie — director, appointed 27/03/2019on trustee list
• PHELPS, Sidney Robert Oliver — director, appointed 09/06/2015on trustee list
• RHODES, Robert Hartley — director, appointed 09/03/2011on trustee list
• BROWN, Christopher James — secretary, appointed 21/12/2016

Official officers record.

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 ~10.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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: 4.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/01/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ROBERT HARTLEY RHODESchair
• Elizabeth Diana Martin · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jonathan James Leslie Gault
• Joshua Bond
• Patricia Anne Le Rolland · trustee of 2 other charities
• ROGER DEEKS
• Robert James Toomer
• SIDNEY ROBERT OLIVER PHELPS

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.