BIRMINGHAM VOLUNTARY SERVICE COUNCIL

Registered charity 218795 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as B V S C, BVSC, BVSC THE CENTRE FOR VOLUNTARY ACTION

BVSC is the leading voluntary sector support body in Birmingham, committed to ensuring that voluntary action can thrive and make a positive difference for everyone in Birmingham. BVSC provides voluntary sector and volunteering support services, a range of VCS-led social impact programmes, community space and building facilities and consultancy, advice and training for our members and partners.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £290k for the year, though unrestricted funds are in deficit due to significant investment in its property asset. The trustees confirm the charity is a going concern, supported by a substantial property base valued at over £3 million, although free unrestricted reserves are currently negative. The strategy involves generating rental income from the refurbished property to rebuild reserves over the medium term.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dains Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £70,001 - £80,000 (FY2024) to £80,001 - £90,000 (FY2025).

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

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr Sophie Wilson — 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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Comic Relief — “The milestone was celebrated by BVSC, who oversee the West Midlands Multibank alongside funders Comic Relief and Sport Relief.” (source page)
• Sport Relief — “The milestone was celebrated by BVSC, who oversee the West Midlands Multibank alongside funders Comic Relief and Sport Relief.” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 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: 1.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• LISA MARTINALIchair
• Ajit Singh Ubhi
• Andreea Tudor · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Charles Cave · trustee of 1 other charity
• Councillor Mohammed Idrees
• David Brendan Harris
• Ken William Wood
• Mohammed Junaid Akhtar · trustee of 3 other charities
• Rosa Spawton-Rice

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

Operates in: Birmingham City

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 THE RICHMOND UPON THAMES COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE.

• THE RICHMOND UPON THAMES COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £335k
• GLAMORGAN VOLUNTARY SERVICES income £1.1m
• COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE (MEDWAY) income £873k
• Wolverhampton Voluntary and Community Action income £1.5m
• ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS IN WREXHAM income £1.1m
• SUPPORT STAFFORDSHIRE income £3.4m

Side by side with its peers

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