VOLUNTARY HELP CENTRE

Registered charity 1164155 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as VHC

WE PROVIDE - 1. A CAR SERVICE FOR THOSE WHO NEED TO UNDERTAKE A JOURNEY FOR WHICH THERE IS NO FAMILY CAR OR SUITABLE PUBLIC TRANSPORT; 2. A BEFRIENDERS SERVICE TO HELP ISOLATED AND HOUSEBOUND WITH A VARIETY OF SERVICES - SHOPPING,DOG WALKING, VISITING AND GENERAL SOCIAL CONTACT; 3. LUNCH CLUB TO BENEFIT THE ELDERLY, DISABLED OR ISOLATED / HOUSEBOUND BY PROVIDING REGULAR SOCIAL ACTIVITY

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION AMONG PERSONS WHO ARE EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY BECAUSE THEY ARE HOUSE-BOUND, OR WHO ARE UNABLE TO DRIVE OR EASILY ACCESS PUBLIC TRANSPORT WITHIN SOUTHWOLD, REYDON, WALBERSWICK AND THE IMMEDIATE SURROUNDING AREAS BY THE PROVISION OF SUCH SERVICES OVER AND ABOVE THOSE WHICH THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES PROVIDE IN ORDER TO RELIEVE SOCIAL ISOLATION, IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION TO THE FOLLOWING: 1. A CAR SERVICE FOR THOSE WHO NEED TO UNDERTAKE A JOURNEY FOR WHICH THERE IS NO FAMILY CAR OR SUITABLE PUBLIC TRANSPORT AVAILABLE;2. A BEFRIENDERS SERVICE TO HELP ISOLATED AND HOUSEBOUND WITH A VARIETY OF SERVICES - SHOPPING, PRESCRIPTIONS, DOG WALKING, VISITING AND GENERAL SOCIAL CONTACT; AND3. LUNCH AND TEA CLUBS TO BENEFIT THE ELDERLY, DISABLED OR ISOLATED / HOUSEBOUND BY PROVIDING REGULAR SOCIAL ACTIVITY.

Area of benefit: WITHIN SOUTHWOLD, REYDON, WALBERSWICK AND THE IMMEDIATE SURROUNDING

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 continues to run with an annual loss due to difficulties in meeting grant terms and reduced donations. However, the trustees report that reserves remain healthy for the moment, with total cash funds increasing to £11,134. The charity relies heavily on volunteer drivers and has experienced challenges in recruiting new staff and volunteers.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls 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
• Volunteer management

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Graham Scrivenchair
• Alison Evans
• Brian Chamberlain
• Carol Southam · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Eccles
• Henry Turner
• Jane Lesley Haslegrave
• Murray Haslegrave
• Ruth Kemp

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

Operates in: Suffolk

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