THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS

Registered charity 225922 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q16998466 · Wikipedia · also known as NCVO, THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF SOCIAL SERVICES

NCVO champions the voluntary sector and volunteering. We connect, represent and support voluntary organisations.

Objects

5.1 The Objects of the Charity are for the public benefit:(a) to advance or promote all or any purposes which are exclusively charitable and for the public benefit in accordance with the laws of England and Wales; and.(b) to promote and organise co-operation in the furtherance of such purposes.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• National Council for Voluntary Organisations launches new logo in brand refresh thirdsector.co.uk · 09/04/2015

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 4.7 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 5.3%) (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

• Angela Spence
• Christopher Geoffrey Sherwood
• James Watson-O'Neill
• Jude William Thomas Sheeran
• Louise Elizabeth Kerrigan
• Philippe Oliver Lintern
• Rubinder Godfrey-Sagoo
• Ruth Marvel · trustee of 1 other charity
• Su-Mei Thompson · trustee of 2 other charities

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 NORTH DEVON VOLUNTARY SERVICES LIMITED.

• NORTH DEVON VOLUNTARY SERVICES LIMITED income £574k
• VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS' NETWORK NORTH EAST income £1.2m
• WALES COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY ACTION income £36.6m
• NOTTINGHAM COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £1.6m
• GWENT ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS income £3.0m
• NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY ACTION income £890k

Side by side with its peers

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