EALING AND HOUNSLOW COMMUNITY VOLUNTARY SERVICE

Registered charity 800684 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EALING & HOUNSLOW COMMUNITY VOLUNTARY SERVICE, EALING COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY SERVICE, EALING CVS

Ealing and Hounslow CVS provides a wide range of support services for voluntary and community groups in the London Boroughs of Ealing and Hounslow, including funding advice, help with recruiting volunteers, information on voluntary sector developments and good practice, and training. It incorporates Ealing Volunteer Centre and Hounslow Volunteer Centre.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE:3.1 TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE LONDON BOROUGHS OF EALING AND HOUNSLOW AND THEIR SURROUNDING AREAS AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, UNEMPLOYMENT, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS, THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, THE ENHANCEMENT OF THE QUALITY OF LIFE AND THE PROMOTION OF URBAN REGENERATION.3.2 TO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO-OPERATION AND PARTNERSHIP IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES AND TO THAT END TO BRING TOGETHER REPRESENTATIVES OF THE THIRD SECTOR ORGANISATIONS AND STATUTORY AUTHORITIES ENGAGED IN THE FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.3.3 TO BUILD THE CAPACITY OF THIRD SECTOR ORGANISATIONS AND TO PROVIDE THEM WITH THE NECESSARY SUPPORT, INFORMATION AND SERVICES TO ENABLE THEM TO PURSUE OR CONTRIBUTE TO ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: LONDON BOROUGH OF EALING AND 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 · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £976,771 and total expenditure to £688,724, resulting in a net movement in funds of £288,047. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £397,068, which is below the stated policy target of approximately six months' expenditure. The auditor confirmed the financial statements give a true and fair view and reported nothing regarding material uncertainties about going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Ward Williams 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
• 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 profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Balvinder Chahal
• Debbie Brenner
• Issack Jirow Olow · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lorraine Charlton
• Nazim Shah
• Rosi Prescott
• Sukbinder Johnny Nota
• TONY ANSELL

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

Operates in: Ealing · Hounslow

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HOUNSLOW EVANGELICAL CHURCH.

• HOUNSLOW EVANGELICAL CHURCH income £123k
• COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY SERVICES CHESHIRE EAST income £590k
• EVESHAM VOLUNTEER CENTRE income £122k
• TENDRING COMMUNITY VOLUNTARY SERVICES income £1.2m
• EALING LAW CENTRE income £589k
• BARNSLEY COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY SERVICES income £658k

Side by side with its peers

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