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Registered charity · Stoke-on-Trent

Royal Voluntary Service

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £41m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website
www.royalvoluntaryservice.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Royal Voluntary Service
Registered
1992

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£41m£39m
  • 2024£42m£42m
  • 2023£38m£40m
Earlier years
  • 2022£36m£40m
  • 2021£36m£37m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 8%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS, SUFFERING OR NEED AMONG ALL SECTIONS OF THE COMMUNITY PRIMARILY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM BY ALL CHARITABLE MEANS AND PARTICULARLY BY PROVIDING:- (I) ASSISTANCE LARGELY IN KIND AND FACILITIES FOR INDIVIDUALS IN THE COMMUNITY; (II) ASSISTANCE IN KIND TO VICTIMS OF EMERGENCIES OR DISASTERS; (III) ADVICE AND FACILITIES TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF THOSE IN HOSPITAL, IN PRISON OR IN THE ARMED SERVICES AND THEIR FAMILIES, AND (B) SUCH OTHER PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY AS SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE.

Grants received

79 grants · £21,946,962 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Postcode Support Trust · £12,497,436 (5 grants)
  • People's Health Trust · £1,932,607 (12 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £1,333,037 (25 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £893,900 (3 grants)
  • Postcode Planet Trust · £397,436

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Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

11 trustees on the board

1.5y median 2y
average tenure
3y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
8.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (4)

8
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

General Charitable Purposes 10Education/training 3Disability 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Hospitality 22Retail and trade 14Business services 10

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£41.5m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

2.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 3.6 in 2021

680 from 909 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1015988
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 10/07/1990AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/12/1992AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/07/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16/09/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/11/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/11/1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/12/1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/11/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/05/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/01/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/09/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/11/2012AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 10/05/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/09/2015
Companies House
Company number 02520413 · Active
Contact on the register
02920739006 · jamie.murinas@royalvoluntaryservice.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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