Wolverhampton Voluntary and Community Action

Registered charity 700910 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as W V S C, WOLVERHAMPTON VOLUNTARY SECTOR COUNCIL

INFRA-STRUCTURE AGENCY SUPPORTING THE NEEDS OF THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR WITHIN THE CITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON, INCLUDING ENCOURAGING COLLABORATIVE WORKING, SUPPORTING PEOPLE TO SPEAK OUT, AND SUPPORTING PEOPLE INTO VOLUNTEERING.

Objects

(I) TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY WITHIN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICT OF THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF WOLVERHAMPTON AND SPECIFICALLY. (II) TO PROVIDE, OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE, FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE SAID COMMUNITY. (III) TO PROVIDE FOR THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS. (IV) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION.

Area of benefit: THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF WOLVERHAMPTON AND THE IMMEDIATE SURROUNDING AREAS

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £561,795, which is below the stated policy target of £515,393 (derived from a 6-month running cost target) when fixed assets are deducted, leaving a residue of £274,608. The charity reported a net deficit on unrestricted funds of £20,179 for the year, with total income decreasing to £1,518,545 from the previous year. Despite these pressures, the trustees and auditors confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Muras Baker Jones Limited. 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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 02288239

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sharon Nanan-Sen — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Anne-Marie Harrison — Vice-Chair (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• UK Government — “This project is funded by the UK Government through the UK Community Renewal Fund” (source page)

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.

• WILLIAMS, Dominique Justine — director, appointed 04/06/2025on trustee list
• CHAMBERS, Daryl — director, appointed 30/11/2023on trustee list
• KAUR, Gurbax — director, appointed 11/03/2021on trustee list
• KEMP, Patricia Mary — director, appointed 23/01/2020on trustee list
• HARRISON, Anne-Marie — director, appointed 06/10/2016on trustee list
• FOX, James Alexander — director, appointed 08/07/2014on trustee list
• NANAN-SEN, Sharon — secretary, appointed 01/09/2023

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/07/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/02/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anne-Marie Harrison
• Daryl Chambers
• Dominique Williams
• Gurbax Kaur · trustee of 2 other charities
• James Alexander Fox
• Patricia Mary Kemp

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

Operates in: Dudley · Sandwell · Walsall · Wolverhampton

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 WARWICKSHIRE COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY ACTION.

• WARWICKSHIRE COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY ACTION income £2.0m
• ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS IN WREXHAM income £1.1m
• WARRINGTON VOLUNTARY ACTION income £987k
• VOLUNTARY ACTION SHEFFIELD income £3.3m
• ASHFORD VOLUNTEER CENTRE income £284k
• NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY ACTION income £890k

Side by side with its peers

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