THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS

Registered charity 225922 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NCVO, THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF SOCIAL SERVICES

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £10.2m, with unrestricted general reserves of £3.9m, which the trustees assess represents just under five months of expenditure. The charity reports a balanced budget for the upcoming year and notes that the £5m received from Charities Aid Foundation in 2024 enabled reserves to be rebuilt to above pre-pandemic levels. However, the defined benefit pension scheme remains in a deficit position of £1.6m, with contributions required under a plan expected to end in 2029.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PKF Littlejohn LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Baroness Delyth Morgan — President (source)
• Kate Lee OBE — CEO (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (45% 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: 19.3% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (28/09/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (28/09/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (28/09/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (22/07/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/02/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Priya Singhchair
• Angela Spence
• Christopher Geoffrey Sherwood
• Dr Sarabajaya Kumar
• Emily Agius
• James Watson-O'Neill
• Jude William Thomas Sheeran
• Philippe Oliver Lintern
• Ruth Marvel · trustee of 1 other charity

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 SANDWELL COUNCIL OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS (S.C.V.O.).

• SANDWELL COUNCIL OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS (S.C.V.O.) income £1.6m
• CROYDON VOLUNTARY ACTION income £1.6m
• PETERBOROUGH COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £655k
• VOLUNTARY ACTION NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE LIMITED income £190k
• ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS IN WREXHAM income £1.1m
• NORTH TYNESIDE VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY income £876k

Side by side with its peers

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