DEVON VOLUNTARY ACTION

Registered charity 1158671 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DEVA

Devon Voluntary Action (DeVA) is a locally based Devon wide CVS partnership building vibrant, healthy communities. Through our partners, we offer help, advice, training and support to voluntary and community sector groups across Devon and support the engagement of the sector in having a powerful voice.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE NOT FOR PROFIT SECTOR, PRINCIPALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN DEVON AND IN PARTICULAR BY:1) BUILDING THE CAPACITY OF CHARITABLE, VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS OPERATING WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT AND PROVIDING THEM WITH THE NECESSARY SUPPORT, INFORMATION AND SERVICES TO ENABLE THEM TO PURSUE OR CONTRIBUTE TO ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE; AND2) PROMOTING, ORGANISING AND FACILITATING CO-OPERATION AND PARTNERSHIP WORKING BETWEEN CHARITABLE, VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS AND STATUTORY AND OTHER RELEVANT BODIES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Mid Devon, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £19,958 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £60,773 to £40,815. Unrestricted reserves stood at £35,429, which the trustees confirmed was above their policy target of three months' running costs. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention during the examination of the accounts.

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.

• Campaigns and political activity 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

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

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

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

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (96% 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: 0.0% of total income.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Brett Elliott
• Felicity Jane Colthorpe
• Marie Roselyn Gould
• Rebecca Jane Sharples
• Sarah Louise Richards

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with INVOLVE - VOLUNTARY ACTION IN MID DEVON.

• INVOLVE - VOLUNTARY ACTION IN MID DEVON income £186k
• NORTH DEVON VOLUNTARY SERVICES LIMITED income £574k
• OXFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY ACTION income £1.7m
• DEVON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £2.2m
• CROYDON VOLUNTARY ACTION income £1.6m
• SEFTON COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £4.8m

Side by side with its peers

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