Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 6

Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 10

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

Financial issues to consider:

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

Established: 33 years

www.volunteercentrecamden.org.uk

info@volunteercentrecamden.org.uk

02074249990

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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		£125	£148	£-23	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	8
31/03/22		£129	£160	£-31	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	8
31/03/21		£167	£163	£4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	8
31/03/20		£163	£139	£24	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	15
31/03/19		£158	£149	£9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	13
31/03/18		£69	£124	£-54	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	*	£121	£135	£-14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£233	£183	£50	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£270	£336	£-66	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£372	£377	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	*	£416	£400	£16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£287	£259	£28	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£222	£222	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£222	£213	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£244	£250	£-6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£260	£248	£11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07		£174	£167	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06		£125	£157	£-31	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£134	£128	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	*	£129	£129	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes

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 works here?

Unknown number of employees
8 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.

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 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 trusted to local authorities so that they can be activated to support and collaborate with the public service response in an emergency.
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 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 trusted to local authorities so that they can be activated to support and collaborate with the public service response in an emergency.
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: 35-78

ABIDA LALANI (Chair) Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Change Consultant

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

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