DUDLEY COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE

Registered charity 517766 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as D C V S, THE DUDLEY COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE

Promoting any charitable purpose for the benefit of the community within the Metropolitan area of Dudley. To develop a high quality, proactive voluntary sector for the benefit of the residents of the Dudley Borough by positively engaging partners in support of voluntary activity. To bring together representatives of the statutory and voluntary organisations engaged therein.

Objects

(A) TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF DUDLEY AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE FURTHERANCE OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS. (B) 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 STATUTORY AUTHORITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS ENGAGED IN THE FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF DUDLEY

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: Dudley, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Dudley CVS experienced a 62% reduction in core funding due to local authority cuts, yet it successfully secured the Local Infrastructure Quality Accreditation (LIQA) and unlocked over £1.5 million in grant funding for other groups. The organization continues to deliver extensive community support services, including social prescribing and the distribution of Household Support Funds, indicating ongoing operational activity despite financial pressures.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• 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

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01998105

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Andy Gray — Chief Officer (source)
• Kate Green — Deputy Chief Officer (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.

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.

• SUNTER, Timothy John — director, appointed 23/10/2025on trustee list
• BAKER-BARNES, Anna — director, appointed 23/10/2025on trustee list
• COLE, Benjamin Thomas — director, appointed 01/02/2025on trustee list
• JONES, Keeley — director, appointed 24/10/2024on trustee list
• BRADLEY, Jennifer Margaret — director, appointed 19/10/2023on trustee list
• FIELDER, Karen Louise — director, appointed 06/11/2019not on trustee list
• LIDINGTON, Derek Roland — director, appointed 15/10/2015on trustee list
• SAYER, Alison Jane — director, appointed 17/10/2013not on trustee list
• KHALID, Asima — director, appointed 14/10/2010on trustee list
• HUBAND, Sally Ann — director, appointed 12/10/2005on trustee list
• CLARKE, Jane Helen — director, appointed 20/10/2004not on trustee list
• JONES, Graham Martin — director, appointed 09/10/1996not on trustee list
• TURNER, Mary Elizabeth Jean — director, appointed 13/10/1993on trustee list
• ADAMS, Anne Elizabeth — directoron trustee list
• GRAY, Andrew John — secretary, appointed 05/11/2004

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (75% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANNE ELIZABETH ADAMS
• ASIMA KHALID
• Anna Baker-Barnes · trustee of 1 other charity
• BENJAMIN COLE
• Derek Roland Lidington · trustee of 1 other charity
• JENNIFER MARGARET BRADLEY
• Jane CLARKE MBE · trustee of 3 other charities
• KEELEY JONES
• MARY ELIZABETH JANE TURNER · trustee of 1 other charity
• SALLY ANN HUBAND
• Timothy John Sunter · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Dudley

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HYNDBURN AND RIBBLE VALLEY COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE.

• HYNDBURN AND RIBBLE VALLEY COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £355k
• COMMUNITY VOLUNTARY ACTION LEDBURY & DISTRICT income £254k
• THE COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE UTTLESFORD income £320k
• DOUGLAS VALLEY COMMUNITY LIMITED income £121k
• COMMUNITY VOLUNTARY SERVICE BEDFORDSHIRE income £418k
• CAMBRIDGE COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £496k

Side by side with its peers

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