SELBY DISTRICT ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTARY SERVICE

Registered charity 1146109 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SELBY DISTRICT AVS, Up for Yorkshire

A.V.S is an infrastructure organisation working for the benefit of the people who live and work in Selby District.

Objects

The charities objects are specifically restricted to the following: 1. To promote any charitable purposes for the benefit of the public, principally, but not exclusively in the historic county of Yorkshire, and its environs (hereinafter called the ?area of benefit?) and, in particular, build the capacity of third sector organisations, and provide them with a necessary support, information and services to enable them to pursue or contribute to any charitable purpose. 2. To promote organise and facilitate cooperation and partnership working between third sector, statutory and other relevant bodies in the achievement of the above purposes within the area of benefit. 3. To advance education by the delivery of a bespoke range of services, activities and opportunities, specifically tailored to support and improve the quality of life for residents within the area of benefit, as detailed at clause 1 above. These services will be delivered through;i. accessible training and coaching courses designed to improve skills and support employment or volunteering;ii. advice services designed to address financial insecurity;iii. health and wellbeing programmes, designed to build resilience and improve emotional and physical wellbeing outcomes, and address inequalities;iv. community based research to help inform service development and improve quality of life outcomes, for those living and working in the area of benefit, as detailed at clause 1 above.

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 · 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 FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £1,149,235 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven largely by an extraordinary item of £1,019,698 from the acquisition of Riccall Regen 2000. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves were £269,533, which the trustees consider prudent as it exceeds their policy target of three months' expenditure, though they note increasing pressure on government funding.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Fortus Audit LLP. Discloses 6 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
• 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £150k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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: 1.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/04/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• KAY GOODWINchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ANN HELEN RHODES
• Dr Kate Urwin · trustee of 1 other charity
• Fiona Conor · trustee of 2 other charities
• Samantha Buckley · 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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Charities like this

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

• VOLUNTARY & COMMUNITY income £1.2m
• RAYLEIGH ROCHFORD AND DISTRICT ASSOCIATION FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £138k
• Servol Community Services income £3.7m
• VOLUNTARY ACTION SHEFFIELD income £3.3m
• SOUTH DERBYSHIRE CVS income £1.5m
• LEICESTERSHIRE VOLUNTARY SECTOR RESOURCE AGENCY income £806k

Side by side with its peers

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