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Registered charity · West Midlands

Sandwell Council of Voluntary Organisations (S.C.V.O.)

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £1.6m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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, Economic/community Development/employment, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Sandwell
Website
www.scvo.info (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
S.C.V.O.
Registered
1998

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.6m£1.6m
  • 2024£1.9m£1.9m
  • 2023£1.9m£1.9m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.6m£1.5m
  • 2021£1.2m£1.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 71%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

WEST MIDLANDS AREA AND IN PARTICULAR BOROUGH OF SANDWELL AND ITS SURROUNDING DISTRICTS (THE AREA OF BENEFIT):-1) TO PROMOTE ALL OR ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE FURTHERANCE OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS; 2) WITHOUT LIMITATION TO THE GENERALITY THE FOREGOING TO PROVIDE RESOURCES TO ORGANISATIONS WITH CHARITABLE OBJECTS IN ORDER TO ASSIST THESE ORGANISATIONS IN THEIR CHARITABLE WORK; AND3) TO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO-OPERATION IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF THESE PURPOSES AND TO BRING TOGETHER IN COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS, STATUTORY AUTHORITIES AND INDIVIDUALS WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Grants received

2 grants · £416,431 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 · £416,431 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £99,3342024-03-21
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £317,0972009-01-22
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.

12 trustees on the board

4.8y median 2y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (3)

12
company-linked trustees

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

Economic/community Development/employment 12Education/training 12General Charitable Purposes 12

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

Other services 16Health and social care 6Tech and media 3

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£1.6m 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.

3.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

17 from 20 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
1071514
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 27 MAY 1998 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 14 JULY 2009
Companies House
Company number 03570517 · Active
Contact on the register
01215251127 · support@scvo.info
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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