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Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 0
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    Overall GiG Score: -50 ?

    VOLUNTEER CENTRE UTTLESFORD 

    Financial Data ?

    Income & Spending ?
    Sources of Income ?
    Y/E Income
    £k
    Spending
    £k
    Surplus/
    Deficit
    Fundraising
    Cost £k
    Total
    Funds £k
    Unrestricted
    Funds £k
    Mths
    Rsrvs
    Staff Volun-
    teers
    31/03/23£29£36£-7n/an/an/an/an/a0
    31/03/22£66£57£9n/an/an/an/an/a2
    31/03/21£75£53£22n/an/an/an/an/a5
    31/03/20£48£49£-1n/an/an/an/an/a6
    31/03/19£57£51£5n/an/an/an/an/a7
    31/03/18£40£42£-2£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/17£37£40£-3£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/16£36£38£-2£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/15£30£39£-9£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/14£62£38£24£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/13£25£36£-11£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/12£24£34£-9£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/11£33£34£0£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/10£35£32£3£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/09£34£40£-7£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/08£40£39£1£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/07£43£37£6£0£0£0n/a00

    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Established: 18 years
    Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebookX
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • Other Charitable Purposes
    GiG Classification
    • Philanthropic intermediaries and voluntarism promotion
    How it operates
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    • Provides human resources
    Where it operates
    • Essex,
    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 significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

    Major supporters in last 5 years
    Essex Community Foundation£17,500
    National Lottery Community Fund£8,386
    CAF£5,000
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Volunteer Centre Uttlesford
    £7,000 07/06/2021
    to support the Volunteer Co-ordinator's duties which source, encourage and place volunteers across Uttlesford district, in continued response to the COVID19 pandemic and also as restrictions allow to ....more
    CAF - Grant to Volunteer Centre Uttlesford
    £5,000 26/06/2020
    3
    Grant to Volunteer Centre Uttlesford to support the organisation through COVID19
    National Lottery Community Fund - Covid 19 Response
    £8,386 22/05/2020
    4
    The funding will be used to continue to provide support and assistance such as collecting and delivering prescriptions and shopping to the elderly self-isolating and vulnerable people of Uttlesford. ....more
    Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Volunteer Centre Uttlesford
    £5,500 08/04/2020
    to increase staff hours who are coordinating volunteers to respond during the COVID19 pandemic in Uttlesford
    Essex Community Foundation - Supporting the salary of the Volunteer Co-ordinator
    £5,000 16/12/2019
    11
    To cover the Volunteer Co-ordinator's post which identifies, encourages and supports volunteering in the community
    National Lottery Community Fund - Volunteers make community cohesiveness
    £4,500 28/06/2018
    12
    The funding will be used to host an event to promote the activities of the organisation. The aim of the project is to increase the number of volunteers in the local community and match them with ....more
    Essex Community Foundation - supporting the salary of the Volunteer Co-ordinator
    £6,058 31/05/2018
    11
    To fund a Volunteer Co-ordinator's post to identify, encourage and support volunteering in the community
    Essex Community Foundation - Helping Hands
    £4,938 01/02/2018
    12
    To promote volunteering to year six Primary School pupils across Uttlesford
    Essex Community Foundation - to support the salary of the volunteer co-ordinator
    £5,500 24/03/2017
    10
    To fund a Volunteer Co-ordinator's post
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 27/06/2006, number: 1114907
    Gift Aid
    • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Policies in force
    • Complaints handling
    • Complaints policy and procedures
    • Conflicting interests
    • Financial reserves policy and procedures
    • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
    • Investment
    • Risk management
    • Safeguarding policy and procedures
    • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
    • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
    • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
    • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
    • Volunteer management
    Filing Record
    17 returns made; all on time
    Main office


    Objectives

    TO PROMOTE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AND ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN AND AROUND THE DISTRICT OF UTTLESFORD IN THE COUNTY OF ESSEX (THE AREA OF BENEFIT) BY THE PROMOTION OF VOLUNTARY SERVICE AND FOR THESE PURPOSES, BUT NOT OTHERWISE, THE CHARITY SHALL:(A) ADVISE AND GUIDE PERSONS WILLING TO VOLUNTEER;(B) PROVIDE A CENTRE OR CENTRES; AND (C) ADVISE AND GUIDE ORGANISATIONS USING VOLUNTEERS, PARTICULARLY THOSE BEING MEMBERS OF THE CHARITY.

    Defined Area of Benefit:

    IN AND AROUND THE DISTRICT OF UTTLESFORD IN THE COUNTY OF ESSEX.

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving
    CharityBase

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