Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 10
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 20 ?

YORK CENTRE FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE 

Support and development services and infrastructure support to voluntary and community organisations in York and the surrounding area.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

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£1,885£1,927£-42£0£1,621£1,1907.45057
31/03/22£1,693£1,480£213£0£1,667£1,1939.73850
31/03/21£1,090£1,009£81£0£1,408£1,16613.93130
31/03/20£1,169£1,145£24£0£1,251£1,11311.74030
31/03/19£1,103£1,099£3£0£1,228£1,05311.53940
31/03/18£1,061£1,095£-33£0£1,214£1,11112.2250
31/03/17£895£1,090£-195£0£1,247£1,16612.8350
31/03/16£1,196£1,221£-25£0£1,432£1,36213.4440
31/03/15£1,139£1,200£-61£25£1,570£1,52915.3310
31/03/14£1,176£1,317£-141£21£1,572£1,52513.9310
31/03/13£1,098£1,289£-192£39£1,691£1,16010.8290
31/03/12£1,225£1,058£167£38£1,832£1,13512.9280
31/03/11£1,053£1,199£-146£38£1,661£1,16211.6310
31/03/10£1,217£1,200£16£36£1,807£1,17911.8300
31/03/09£1,032£1,027£5£43£1,790£1,19414280
31/03/08£1,222£1,308£-86£35£1,772£1,13710.4380
31/03/07£1,187£1,265£-78£26£1,858£1,0279.7400
31/03/06£1,599£1,270£329£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£1,297£1,158£140£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£948£1,006£-58£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 4%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 20%
Liabilities/Income: 22%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 73%
Reserves/Spending: 7.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 2.2
Asset Split ?
Established: 60 years
(73 years as a company)

www.yorkcvs.org.uk

01904621133

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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 advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • City Of York, North Yorkshire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 50 employees
  • 57 volunteers

Who's supporting 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
Lankelly Chase Foundation£759,333
National Lottery Community Fund£120,000
Two Ridings Community Foundation£71,900
Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust£4,904
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Upskilling the voluntary sector in York
£10,000 08/04/2022
The funding will be used to enable the group to co-ordinate and deliver hybrid (face to face and online) training sessions and workshops with an overarching focus on equality diversity and inclusion ....more
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Grant to York Centre For Voluntary Service
£30,000 11/02/2022
Activity to increase the uptake and usage of the NHS App: York
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Grant to York Centre For Voluntary Service
£10,000 10/02/2022
Activity to increase the uptake and usage of the NHS App - York
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to York CVS
£720 07/02/2022
York CVS
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to York CVS
£181,247 08/11/2021
York CVS
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Grant to York Centre For Voluntary Service
£2,500 11/10/2021
HCV VCSE Place Based Investment - York
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Grant to York Centre For Voluntary Service
£8,400 11/10/2021
HCV VCSE Leadership Participation Grant
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to York CVS
£21,000 08/07/2021
York CVS
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to York CVS
£18,500 15/06/2021
York CVS
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to York CVS
£16,476 15/06/2021
York CVS
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to York Centre for Voluntary Service
£72,091 24/05/2021
York Centre for Voluntary Service
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Grant to York Centre For Voluntary Service
£15,000 19/04/2021
Funding to support the development of a new volunteer management system for voluntary sector groups in York.
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to York Centre for Voluntary Service
£38,995 14/04/2021
York Centre for Voluntary Service
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to York CVS
£3,700 17/03/2021
York CVS
National Lottery Community Fund - Operation covid recovery
£100,000 26/08/2020
6
The funding will create a volunteering hub to provide a new brokerage service for volunteers and voluntary organisations. This will include promoting the organisations volunteering opportunities ....more
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to York Centre for Voluntary Service
£20,000 29/06/2020
York Centre for Voluntary Service
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to York Centre for Voluntary Service
£17,400 20/05/2020
York Centre for Voluntary Service
Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust - York Dementia Action Alliance – A New Beginning
£4,904 05/05/2020
To develop the work of the York Dementia Action Alliance and create a co-designed service with people living with dementia
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Covid-19
£6,000 15/04/2020
Funding for HR advice and support for non-profit small groups, so that charities etc can better use their resources to support their beneficiaries and staff/volunteers.
National Lottery Community Fund - Training for the voluntary sector in York
£10,000 03/03/2020
11
The funding will be used to deliver a programme of training workshops, webinars, webcasts and podcasts for volunteers. The project aims to increase knowledge and skills of people volunteering in the ....more
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to York Centre for Voluntary Service
£369,204 27/01/2020
Co-ordination of the Multiple Complex Needs Network (MCN) as they work out how to work systematically
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to York Centre for Voluntary Service
£26,350 15/04/2019
8
This proposal is for salary costs for a four-day-a-week post at CVS / Healthwatch.
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to York Centre for Voluntary Service
£25,000 09/04/2019
Systems changers in York
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Ways to Wellbeing Tang Hall
£9,372 05/09/2017
To run outreach work in Tang Hall in order to engage local residents with their ‘Ways to Wellbeing’ social prescribing project
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Tang Hall Ways to Wellbeing
£5,000 13/06/2017
Funding to expand ways to wellbeing in the Tang Hall area which aims to increase confidence and decrease lonliness.
National Lottery Community Fund - Sound Space
£10,000 14/02/2013
12
This is a project by an incorporated charity in York. The organisation will use the funding to reduce sound reverberation in their main hall. This will enable local community groups to utilise this ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Funding Landscapes
£10,000 26/05/2011
12
This charity in York will use funding to run a funding conference for voluntary and community organisations in the North Yorkshire area with guest speakers from funders and government departments. ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 26-69
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 03/12/1963, number: 225087
  • Registered at Companies House on 30/03/1951, number: 00493550
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Care Quality Commission
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
Policies in force
  • 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
  • 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
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Main office

YORK CENTRE FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE
PRIORY STREET CENTRE
15 PRIORY STREET
YORK
YO1 6ET

Objectives

1. TO WORK FOR THE BENEFIT OF YORK AND DISTRICT BY QUICKENING THE SPIRIT OF FELLOWSHIP AND SOCIAL SERVICE AND UNDERTAKING AND ASSISTING IN SOCIAL WORK AND ACTIVITIES AND THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL WELFARE OF EVERY KIND. 2. TO INITIATE, PROMOTE AND ASSIST ANY SCHEMES ENTERPRISES OR ACTIVITIES FOR THE INHABITANTS OF THE SAID CITY, OR OTHERWISE CALCULATED TO ADVANCE THE PRACTICE OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION).

Defined Area of Benefit:

CITY OF YORK AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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