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Registered charity · Reading

Reading Voluntary Action

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £723k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Reading
Website
www.rva.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Reading Voluntary Action
Registered
1995

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£723k£739k
  • 2024£697k£694k
  • 2023£732k£781k
Earlier years
  • 2022£612k£664k
  • 2021£493k£515k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 55%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, AND IN PARTICULAR BY: 1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION. 2) THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS. 3) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID COMMUNITY.

Grants received

6 grants · £596,106 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £596,106 (6 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £77,0812020-06-11
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £4,8802015-03-13
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,9162014-10-03
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £488,6942007-12-05
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £11,3002007-01-24
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.

6.1y median 8y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

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 9Other Charitable Purposes 9

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

Health and social care 8Professional services 2Manufacturing 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together
  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£723k latest income
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.

3.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

19 from 20 in 2022
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
1045782
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 24/10/1994AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/10/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/10/2011AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 27/10/2011
Companies House
Company number 02982252 · Active
Contact on the register
01189372273 · info@rva.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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