KINGSTON VOLUNTARY ACTION

Registered charity 1160403 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KVA, Love Kingston

to promote the voluntary sector in Kingston upon Thames by the provision of information, advice, education, training services, resources and other support. To encourage and support innovation and the meeting of new or unmet needs. To develop the capacity and skills of local organisations working to support local communities, to build resilience and connect people to their communities.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £1,338,029, with unrestricted free reserves standing at £613,330. The charity reports a net income of £248,414 for the year and confirms it has adequate resources to continue as a going concern. The trustees note that the coming years will be financially challenging due to increased costs and ending grants, but anticipate covering shortfalls using unrestricted funds.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Goodman Jones LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sanja Djeric-Kane — CEO (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/04/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• NIGEL NEWBYchair
• Archie James Manister-O'Neill
• Helena Pohl
• Kyle Graham
• Mary Theresa McDonald · trustee of 1 other charity
• Patricia Mary Monro · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rachael Louise Basak
• Ranjit Dhillon
• Tarlochan Johal

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

Operates in: Bromley · Croydon · Kingston Upon Thames · Merton · Richmond Upon Thames · Surrey · Sutton · Wandsworth

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE RICHMOND UPON THAMES COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE.

• THE RICHMOND UPON THAMES COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £335k
• ONE KNOWSLEY income £1.9m
• GWENT ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS income £3.0m
• THE ROYAL BOROUGH OF KINGSTON UPON THAMES CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX SERVICE income £281k
• BRIDGEND ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS income £1.1m
• ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS IN WREXHAM income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.