VOLUNTARY ACTION LEICESTER

Registered charity 509300 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LEICESTER COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE

The charity's objects are to promote any charitable purposes for the benefit of the community in the City of Leicester, County of Leicestershire, and County of Rutland, and to promote and organise co-operation in the achievement of this purpose.

Objects

1. TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE CITY OF LEICESTER AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND FURTHERANCE OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS. 2. TO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO-OPERATION IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES AND TO THAT END TO BRING TOGETHER IN COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATUS IN COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS ENGAGED IN THE FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: CITY OF LEICESTER

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Leicester, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net deficit of £258,195 for the year ended 31 March 2026, primarily due to the planned utilisation of restricted project funds. However, the trustees report that the charity's financial position remains robust, with free reserves of £534,581 and strong cash balances of £977,728. The charity has no outstanding long-term borrowing and continues to operate on a going concern basis.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Magma Audit LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Voluntary Action LeicesterShire (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Kevin Allen-Khimani — Chief Executive (source)
• Linda Jones — Chair (source)
• Hardip Chohan — Director (source)
• Trace Voss — 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £710k. 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 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (85% 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: 1.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Linda Mary Joneschair · trustee of 2 other charities
• AJAY AGGARWAL
• David Appleton · trustee of 2 other charities
• Duncan Cullen
• Emily Colette Weatherer - Smith
• Joanna Moore
• NARENDRAKUMAR LALJI BHAGWANJI WAGHELA · trustee of 2 other charities
• Zahirul Haque

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

Operates in: Leicester City · Leicestershire · Rutland

Income and spending

Common questions

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 VOLUNTARY ACTION SOUTH LEICESTERSHIRE.

• VOLUNTARY ACTION SOUTH LEICESTERSHIRE income £587k
• COMMUNITY VOLUNTARY ACTION LEDBURY & DISTRICT income £254k
• VOLUNTARY ACTION STRATFORD ON AVON DISTRICT income £314k
• VOLUNTARY ACTION COVENTRY income £351k
• VOLUNTARY ACTION RUTLAND income £277k
• VOLUNTARY ACTION ISLINGTON LIMITED income £503k

Side by side with its peers

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