BRADFORD VCS ALLIANCE LIMITED

Registered charity 1199129 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE VCS ALLIANCE

The VCS Alliance covers Bradford District and Craven, and has been developed by the local Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) to become an equal partner in the Integrated Care System, alongside with other key local health, social care and support providers.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £120,408 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £3,087,783 and unrestricted reserves of £498,255. Per the trustees' report, the charity operates in an environment of financial uncertainty due to challenges faced by its health and care partners, yet the board remains confident in its ability to continue its core purpose.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 10597133

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sam Keighley — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Kerrie-Lee Barr — Development Director (source)
• Chris Elliot — Finance Director (source)
• Vicki Beere — Board Chair (source)
• Gill Thornton — Director (source)
• Kerry Bennett — Director (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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• RAFIQ, Shakeel Ahmed — director, appointed 26/02/2026on trustee list
• LE-HAIR, Rebecca Louise — director, appointed 26/02/2026on trustee list
• SOWRAY, Lyn Patricia — director, appointed 30/05/2024on trustee list
• CHANDLER, Matthew Stephen — director, appointed 30/05/2024on trustee list
• RAUF, Mohammed Akhlak, Dr — director, appointed 30/05/2024on trustee list
• ESSLER, Pamela Margaret — director, appointed 01/03/2023on trustee list
• GRAHAM, William Manley — director, appointed 16/07/2019on trustee list
• BEERE, Victoria Suzanne — director, appointed 20/07/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (81% 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).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Mohammed Akhlak Rauf
• Lyn Patricia Sowray
• Matthew Stephen Chandler
• PAMELA MARGARET ESSLER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rebecca Louise Le-Hair
• Shakeel Ahmed Rafiq
• Victoria Suzanne Beere
• William Manley Graham

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

Operates in: Throughout England

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 COMMUNITY ACTION BRADFORD & DISTRICT LTD..

• COMMUNITY ACTION BRADFORD & DISTRICT LTD. income £1.4m
• BRADFORD DISTRICT CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST income £215k
• THE CARE FORUM income £1.3m
• Step 2 Young People's Health income £663k
• SUNDERLAND VOLUNTARY SECTOR ALLIANCE income £372k
• CITIZENS ADVICE BRADFORD & AIREDALE AND BRADFORD LAW CENTRE income £2.5m

Side by side with its peers

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