HARROGATE AND AREA CVS LTD

Registered charity 1144758 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HACVS, HADCA, HARCVS, HARROGATE & RIPON CENTRES FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE, Harrogate & District Community Action

SINCE 1988 HADCA HAS PROVIDED INNOVATIVE SPECIALIST INFORMATION, RESOURCES & SUPPORT TO VOLUNTEERS, CHARITIES & COMMUNITY GROUPS TO ENABLE THEM TO MAKE A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE IN HARROGATE DISTRICT. SERVICES INCLUDE INFORMATION UPDATES; COMMUNITY INFORMATION & VOLUNTEERING DIRECTORIES; NETWORKS; PRACTICAL SUPPORT TO HELP PEOPLE REMAIN INDEPENDENT AT HOME; HARROGATE COMMUNITY HOUSE

Objects

1)TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, PRINCIPALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF THE HARROGATE DISTRICT AND ITS ENVIRONS(HEREINAFTER CALLED THE "AREA OF BENEFIT") AND, IN PARTICULAR, BUILD THE CAPACITY OF CHARITIES, VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND SOCIAL ENTERPRISES AND PROVIDE THEM WITH THE NECESSARY SUPPORT, INFORMATION AND SERVICES TO ENABLE THEM TO PURSUE OR CONTRIBUTE TO ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE.2)TO PROMOTE, ORGANISE AND FACILITATE CO-OPERATION AND PARTNERSHIP WORKING BETWEEN CHARITIES, VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND SOCIAL ENTERPRISES; AND STATUTORY AND OTHER RELEVANT BODIES IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.3) FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO ASSIST IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF HARROGATE DISTRICT AND ITS ENVIRONS

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity finished the year with an overall deficit of £85,085, resulting in a decrease in total fund balances from £786,932 to £701,847. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves of £129,264 remain above the stated policy target of £100,000, which is equivalent to three months' running costs. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

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
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~4.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/09/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alistair William Ratcliffe · trustee of 1 other charity
• Clare Schmidt
• Dr Phyllis Johnson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Helen Claire Bourner
• Michael Peter Tremearne Curnow
• Samuel John Gibbs
• Victoria Kathryn Oldham · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HAREGATE COMMUNITY CENTRE.

• HAREGATE COMMUNITY CENTRE income £104k
• HAVERING VOLUNTEER CENTRE income £144k
• HARDWICK IN PARTNERSHIP LTD income £109k
• HARROW ASSOCIATION OF DISABLED PEOPLE income £594k
• HARLOW COMMUNITY CENTRE ASSOCIATION income £103k
• HARROGATE DISTRICT FOODBANK income £115k

Side by side with its peers

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