Registered charity · Surrey
Croydon Voluntary Action
- 6 trustees
- Income £1.6m (2025)
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, Education/training, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty and 1 more
- Where
- Croydon, Surrey
- Website
- www.cvalive.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Croydon Voluntary Action
- Registered
- 1997
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1.6m£1.7m
- 2024£1.6m£1.5m
- 2023£1.6m£1.9m
Earlier years
- 2022£1.6m£1.7m
- 2021£1.3m£1.4m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 7% · Government grants 27%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF CROYDON AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PRESERVATION OR PROTECTION OF HEALTH, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS [ INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF ACCOMODATION FOR NECESSITOUS OR AGED PERSONS], AND TO PROMOTE HARMONIOUS COMMUNITY RELATIONS AMONG THE COMMUNITY OF ALL RACES, BELIEFS AND CULTURES.
Grants received
24 grants · £3,906,224 total360Giving 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 · £2,327,347 (10 grants)
- Maudsley Charity · £1,038,493 (3 grants)
- Sport England · £249,876 (2 grants)
- Comic Relief · £163,530 (2 grants)
- London Marathon Foundation · £47,000
Most recent
- Greater London Authority
- The National Lottery Community Fund
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 trustees on the board
- Karim Hemani Chair since 2022
- Carole Elaine Parnell since 2012
- Ghazala Mirza
- Mary Maccauley since 2013
- Mike Mulvey since 2013
- Terry Roberts
Trustees past 6 years
- Carole Elaine Parnell since 2012
- Mary Maccauley since 2013
- Mike Mulvey since 2013
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (5)
- Karim Hemani Chair since 2022
- Carole Elaine Parnell since 2012
- Mary Maccauley since 2013
- Mike Mulvey since 2013
- Terry Roberts
Portfolio (1)
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Gaps to watch
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
4.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1060157
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 30/10/1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/11/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02/11/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/02/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/05/2014 as amended on 10 Dec 2021
- Companies House
- Company number 03271298 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02086537060 · cva@cvalive.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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