Skills & Volunteering Cymru (SVC)

Registered charity 1173198 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as STUDENT VOLUNTEERING CARDIFF(SVC)

Supporting children and adults with learning disabilities and/or physical impairments to access their community; supporting the homeless and adults with mental health conditions through befriending projects; facilitating initiatives aimed at making South Wales a greener, cleaner and safer area - through community and environmental initiatives.

Objects

A. TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE CITY AND COUNTY OF CARDIFF AND SURROUNDING AREAS, IN PARTICULAR, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE FURTHERANCE OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS.

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds decreased from £215,615 to £206,476, while total funds increased to £335,359. The trustees report that the loss of partner funding is a main risk, but they remain confident in the charity's ability to continue operations.

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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Funders the charity credits

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

• BBC Children in Need — “These are the wonderful organisations that support SVC, either through funding or helping us to achieve our objectives in the community. BBC…” (source page)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/02/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Poppy Lila Martin-Williamschair
• Amelia Kaye Hufschmied
• Diana Garrisi
• Dr Henry George Morris
• Hassan Ahmed
• Heidi Alice Smith
• Huw Rhys Williams
• Jenna Abbey Booth
• KAREN HARVEY-COOKE
• Kelly-Marie Fenton
• Kieran Perry Vass
• Lauren Conway
• Lucie Ann Mathison
• Lucy Claire John
• Lydia Anne Rudge
• Rhian Eleri Perridge
• Rhian Fish
• Shannon Mary Ferran
• Sophie Jayne Smith
• Umar Farouqe Alam

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

Operates in: Cardiff · Rhondda Cynon Taff · Vale Of Glamorgan

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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