Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 6
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

CAMDEN VOLUNTEER BUREAU

Volunteer Centre Camden exists to support and encourage volunteering and promote equality of access to volunteer opportunities for all people in Camden. Volunteer Centre Camden works with organisations to develop volunteering opportunities, ensuring high standards in volunteer management.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£125£148£-23n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£129£160£-31n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£167£163£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£163£139£24n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£158£149£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£69£124£-54n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17*£121£135£-14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£233£183£50n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£270£336£-66n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£372£377£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13*£416£400£16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£287£259£28n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£222£222£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£222£213£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£244£250£-6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£260£248£11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07£174£167£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£125£157£-31n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£134£128£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04*£129£129£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 34 years

www.volunteercentrecamden.org.uk

info@volunteercentrecamden.org.uk

02074249990

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Philanthropic intermediaries and voluntarism promotion
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides human resources
Where it operates
  • Camden,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Camden Volunteer Bureau
£161,360 06/09/2022
36
£161,360 over three years (£49,760; £52,800; £58,800) to strategically develop health volunteering across North Central London and embed volunteering in the strategic plans of the NHS.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Camden Volunteer Bureau
£23,100 08/06/2021
£23,100 towards the development phase of a user-led partnership to develop the North Central London Volunteering PLUS Partnership to better work and integrate with the NHS across the five boroughs.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Camden Volunteer Bureau
£24,836 11/09/2020
towards the costs of developing new volunteering opportunities in LB Camden, as outlined in your application.
DCMS - Connected Communities Innovation Fund
£43,463 01/04/2019
Camden Volunteer Centres CAMERA (Coordinating and Mobilising Emergency Response Activists) project is an emergency volunteer programme that will enable local people and businesses to be known and ....more
Nesta - AC00760
£86,925 03/05/2018
23
Connected Communities programme grant to Camden Volunteer Bureau Grant Ref AC00760
DCMS - Connected Communities Innovation Fund
£43,463 03/05/2018
Camden Volunteer Centres CAMERA (Coordinating and Mobilising Emergency Response Activists) project is an emergency volunteer programme that will enable local people and businesses to be known and ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Camden Volunteer Bureau
£125,300 25/09/2014
24
£125,300 over two years (£62,200; £63,100) for the costs of the Best Practice Service, promoting improved volunteer management for voluntary organisations in Camden.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 35-79
  • ANDREW JAMES HOENICH Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Manager (Finance)
  • CATHERINE ANNE GIBBINS Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Retired
  • JOSHUA SAUNDERS BERELOWITZ Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Finance
  • JULIA LY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Executive Director
  • SAIF AHAMED Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Accountant
  • SCOTT HEATH Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Senior R&D Specialist
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 15/02/1991, number: 1001907
  • Registered at Companies House on 05/03/1990, number: 02476916
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • 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
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR17: 1 days late, AR13: 7 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

Kentish Town Community Centre
17 Busby Place
LONDON
NW5 2SP

Objectives

TO UNDERTAKE VOLUNTARY WORK IN EDUCATION, SOCIAL SERVICES AND SIMILAR CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES AMONG THOSE CLASSES IN NEED THEREOF.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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