VOSCUR LIMITED

Registered charity 1148403 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as VOSCUR

Voscur is a Council for Voluntary Service; a member-led infrastructure organisation working with voluntary and community sector (VCS) organisations and private and statutory sectors to ensure VCS representation at strategic partnerships and decision-making bodies. It offers a range of services to its members and the wider VCS including the provision of information, advice, training and networking.

Objects

4(1) To promote any charitable purposes for the benefit of the public, principally but not exclusively in Bristol and the West and South West of England (hereinafter called the “area of benefit”) and, in particular, build the capacity of third sector organisations and provide them with the necessary support, information and services to enable them to pursue or contribute to any charitable purpose. 4(2) To promote, organise and facilitate co-operation and partnership working between third sector, statutory and other relevant bodies in the achievement of the above purposes within the area of benefit.4(3) For the purposes of this Article 4:(a) “third sector” means charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.(b) “charities” are organisations which are established for exclusively charitable purposes in accordance with the law of England and Wales. (c) “voluntary organisations and social enterprises” are independent organisations, which are established for purposes that add value to the community as a whole, or a significant section of the community, and which are not permitted by their constitution to make a profit for private distribution. Voluntary organisations and social enterprises do not include local government or other statutory authorities.

Area of benefit: CITY OF BRISTOL 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: Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Voscur generated a deficit of £18,168 for the year ended 31 March 2025, a significant improvement from the £184,553 deficit in the prior year. The charity reports unrestricted reserves of £152,913, which the trustees consider adequate to maintain the organization as a going concern despite rising operational costs.

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.

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/12/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrea June Christine Dellchair
• ALBERT MARK GARDINER · trustee of 4 other charities
• Amy Sutcliffe
• Christopher Joseph Alessandro Egitto · trustee of 1 other charity
• Edward Francis Norton
• Xanthe Swift

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Bristol City · North Somerset · South Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• COMMUNITY VOLUNTARY SERVICE BEDFORDSHIRE income £418k
• THURROCK C.V.S (COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY SERVICE) income £1.2m
• LEICESTERSHIRE VOLUNTARY SECTOR RESOURCE AGENCY income £806k
• BEXLEY VOLUNTARY SERVICE COUNCIL LIMITED income £938k
• VOLUNTARY & COMMUNITY income £1.2m
• BIRMINGHAM VOLUNTARY SERVICE COUNCIL income £17.0m

Side by side with its peers

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