BURY VOLUNTARY COMMUNITY & FAITH ALLIANCE

Registered charity 1182039 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BURY VCFA, VCFA

VCFA is an infrastructure organisation providing development, support, and volunteering services to charities in Bury Greater Manchester

Objects

The promotion of efficiency and effectiveness of voluntary organisations, Charities, Community & Faith Groups (VCF) for the public benefit by giving advice and assistance to VCF organisations working in Bury and the surrounding areas to enable them to meet their purposes.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free unrestricted reserves were £151,065, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of approximately six months of unrestricted charitable expenditure. The charity reported a net income increase of £109,364 for the year, driven largely by increased grant income, though total expenditure also rose significantly compared to the prior year.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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
• Volunteer management

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (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: 0.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Catterall DL · trustee of 2 other charities
• Gary Malcomson
• Jill Logan
• Katie Jenkinson
• Laura Wolstenholme
• OLAJUMOKE ILEVBABOR · trustee of 1 other charity
• Steph Brocken
• TANVEER AHMED
• Vicky Maloney

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

Operates in: Bury

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

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LANCASHIRE ASSOCIATION OF COUNCILS FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE.

• LANCASHIRE ASSOCIATION OF COUNCILS FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £150k
• Wolverhampton Voluntary and Community Action income £1.5m
• BURY TOWN COMMUNITY FOOTBALL CLUB income £106k
• BRADFORD VCS ALLIANCE LIMITED income £3.1m
• EREWASH VOLUNTARY ACTION - COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £755k
• OXFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY ACTION income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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