VOLUNTARY ACTION - SWINDON

Registered charity 287732 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as VOLUNTARY ACTION SWINDON

Voluntary Action Swindon is the local Council for Voluntary Service (CVS) in Swindon. As an infrastructure organisation, Voluntary Action Swindon offers capacity building support to voluntary and community organisations; it represents their interests and provides a voice for them in policy-making. All voluntary and community organisations in the Borough of Swindon are our target groups.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE BOROUGH OF THAMESDOWN AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND FURTHERANCE OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS.

Area of benefit: BOROUGH OF THAMESDOWN

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Swindon, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that free/unrestricted reserves were £52,020, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of six to twelve months of operational costs. The filing notes that the majority of income comes from local authority contracts due to end in March 2027, presenting a risk if these are not renewed or are awarded at lower values. However, the trustees consider the going concern basis appropriate due to a strong balance sheet and unrestricted reserves of approximately £265k excluding fixed assets.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2025) → no going-concern doubt (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01604168

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.

• ADI, Esther Onyinyechi — director, appointed 25/03/2026on trustee list
• HOBBS, Rachel Rebecca — director, appointed 21/01/2026on trustee list
• WEBB, Pamela Jean — director, appointed 22/10/2025on trustee list
• OREILLY - MEREDITH, Neville Maurice — director, appointed 21/05/2025not on trustee list
• BARNES, George Stephen — director, appointed 24/01/2024on trustee list
• FLAY, Mark Adrian — director, appointed 17/09/2020on trustee list
• BELL, David Malcolm — director, appointed 10/09/2015on trustee list
• HENDERSON, Stephen Jeremy — director, appointed 10/09/2015on trustee list
• BARRETT, Robert Charles — director, appointed 10/09/2015on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles 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): linkedin

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~1.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (77% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/02/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ROBERT CHARLES BARRETTchair · trustee of 5 other charities
• David Malcolm Bell · trustee of 2 other charities
• Esther Onyinyechi Adi · trustee of 1 other charity
• George Stephen Barnes · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Adrian Flay
• NEVILLE MAURICE OREILLY - MEREDITH
• Pamela Jean Webb
• Rachel Rebecca Hobbs
• Stephen Jeremy Henderson

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

Operates in: Swindon · Wiltshire

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 SOUTHAMPTON VOLUNTARY SERVICES.

• SOUTHAMPTON VOLUNTARY SERVICES income £799k
• SEFTON COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £4.8m
• SOUTHEND ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTARY SERVICES income £1.4m
• NORTH DEVON VOLUNTARY SERVICES LIMITED income £506k
• VOLUNTARY ACTION COVENTRY income £351k
• THE COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE UTTLESFORD income £320k

Side by side with its peers

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