Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +2
Overall GiG Score: 5 ?

CENTRAL SURREY VOLUNTARY ACTION LIMITED 

Central Surrey Voluntary Action provides infrastructure services of primarily support and advice to the voluntary, community and faith sector of Elmbridge, Epsom & Ewell and Mole Valley
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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 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
Established: 14 years

www.centralsurreyvoluntaryaction.co.uk

admin@csva.co.uk

01306640369

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseX
UN SDGs
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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£262£283£-21n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/22£306£334£-28n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/03/21£378£340£38n/an/an/an/an/a61
31/03/20£259£281£-22n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/03/19£196£212£-16n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/18£164£123£41£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£118£97£21£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£142£109£33£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£131£103£28£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14*£128£142£-13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13*£143£135£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12*£152£211£-59£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£131£157£-26£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Surrey,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 10 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
Community Foundation for Surrey - COVID19 - Infrastructure Support
£18,149 06/08/2020
12
Funding toward the salary and equipment cost to enable an organisation that serves Central Surrey, support charities with training, advice and volunteers, during the recovery of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Volunteers Plus - Database for Volunteers Centres Surrey
£8,300 07/09/2017
12
Funding is sought to enable a strategic investment in IT - installing a new database which will enable the charity to more efficiently provide volunteering brokerage across Surrey.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 62-81
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 06/05/2010, number: 1135830
  • Registered at Companies House on 02/03/2010, number: 07174573
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
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
13 returns made; AR14: 151 days late, AR13: 127 days late, AR12: 121 days late,
Main office

The Point
The Mayflower Lyons Court
Dorking
Surrey
RH4 1AB

Objectives

A. TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE DISTRICT COUNCIL AREA OF MOLE VALLEY AND THE BOROUGH COUNCIL AREA OF EPSOM AND EWELL AND THE BOROUGH COUNCIL AREA OF ELMBRIDGE AND WHEN APPROPRIATE TO THE SAID PURPOSES THE WHOLE OF THE AREA COVERED BY SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE “AREA OF BENEFIT”) AND, IN PARTICULAR, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS.B. TO PROMOTE, ORGANIZE AND FACILITATE CO-OPERATION IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES AND TO THAT END BRING TOGETHER IN COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND STATUTORY AUTHORITIES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE DISTRICT COUNCIL AREA OF MOLE VALLEY AND THE BOROUGH COUNCIL AREA OF EPSOM AND EWELL AND THE BOROUGH COUNCIL AREA OF ELMBRIDGE.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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