Overall GiG Score: 1 ?
Finance Score: -6
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 7
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Static board: -3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +4

NORTH WEST KENT VOLUNTEER CENTRE 

North West Kent Volunteer Centre promotes, recruits and trains volunteers. It provides a volunteering brokerage service for new volunteers and local voluntary and community organisations. Additionally, it manages 3 Front-line servies using teams of volunteers who assist the older person to live independent lives within their own home.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • 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 gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board composition appears to be rather static

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 47 years

www.nwkvolunteers.org.uk

volunteer@nwkvolunteers.org.uk

01322272476

Charity Commission for England and Wales
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*£38£79£-40n/an/an/an/an/a25
31/03/22£74£72£2n/an/an/an/an/a90
31/03/21£93£82£12n/an/an/an/an/a125
31/03/20£134£112£22n/an/an/an/an/a120
31/03/19£137£168£-31n/an/an/an/an/a189
31/03/18£160£125£35£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£133£123£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£153£165£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£146£152£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£166£162£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£127£137£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£139£143£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£49£60£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£60£55£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£56£48£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£59£46£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£54£62£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£64£67£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£55£63£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£63£57£6£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
Who works here?
  • 25 volunteers
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
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Kent,

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
National Lottery Community Fund - SMILES befriending service
£9,700 22/04/2022
This project will use funding to reduce isolation and will contact people with various communication methods to support people to attend appointments or activities such as doctors/hospital ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to North West Kent Volunteer Centre
£7,816 15/11/2019
We wish to bring SMILES to the elderly, frail, and vulnerable of North West Kent by providing them with access, care, and companionship.
National Lottery Community Fund - SMILES (Services Maintaining Independent Living & Elderly Support)
£10,000 17/01/2018
12
The organisation will use the funding to continue to run a volunteering programme that helps older people, providing a befriending service and activities.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to North West Kent Volunteer Centre
£90,500 08/06/2017
36
towards three years' salary of two additional Befriending Co-ordinators for the 'SMILES Project', providing a befriending service to lonely older people in Kent
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 03/05/2017
"VOLUNTEER - SMILES" (Volunteer Services Maintaining Independent Living & Elderly Support)

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 30/08/1977, number: 274029
Gift Aid
  • 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
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • 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; AR23: 9 days late,
Main office

CAS Community Solutions
The Old Fire Station
Church Road
SWANSCOMBE
Kent
DA10 0HF

Objectives

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE BUREAU IS ESTABLISHED ARE TO UNDERTAKE VOLUNTARY WORK IN EDUCATION, SOCIAL SERVICES AND SIMILAR CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES AMONGST THOSE CLASSES IN NEED THEREOF.

Defined Area of Benefit:

WEST KENT

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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