VOLUNTEER ACTION

Registered charity 1161080 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Volunteer Action is a local charity that provides a Community Car Service and Befriending services to people living in north east Northamptonshire. The service helps ensure elderly, infirm and disabled people in the community access some of the vital services they need to remain independent.

Objects

TO ADVANCE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN EAST NORTHAMPTONSHIRE,AND ANY OTHER AREA WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF THE CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES THAT THE CHARITY TRUSTEES DEEM APPROPRIATE FROM TIME TO TIME, AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES HEREINAFTER CONSTITUTED SHALL DETERMINE, PARTICULARLY, BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, BY ENCOURAGING VOLUNTARY WORK WITH A VIEW TO RELIEVING POVERTY, THE SICK AND THE AGED IN THE SAID AREA

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity delivered a surplus of £34,944 for the financial year ending 31 March 2025. The trustees have determined to maintain reserves at a minimum level of six months' running costs plus associated wind-up costs to address uncertainties regarding future statutory funding. The charity employs 2.8 full-time equivalent staff and relies significantly on volunteer contributions to deliver its services.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 4 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Volunteer Action (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Colemans of Oundle — “A huge thank you to Colemans of Oundle, who chose Volunteer Action as the charity to support through their Christmas Card Appeal last year. …” (source page)

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/01/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• LLoyd Martinchair
• Charles Wallace
• David Cashmore · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Pick · trustee of 2 other charities
• Judith Middleton
• Moira Froggatt
• Richard George Allinson
• Sandra Church

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

Operates in: Northamptonshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with VOLUNTARY IMPACT NORTHAMPTONSHIRE LTD.

• VOLUNTARY IMPACT NORTHAMPTONSHIRE LTD income £1.2m
• COMMUNITY ACTION NORTHUMBERLAND income £886k
• SERVE income £1.4m
• TADCASTER VOLUNTEER CARS & SERVICES ASSOCIATION income £146k
• RUSHMOOR VOLUNTARY SERVICES income £661k
• PALLION ACTION GROUP 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.