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Registered charity (CIO) · Kent

Swale Community and Voluntary Services

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £513k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Economic/community Development/employment, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Kent
Website
www.swalecvs.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2018

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£513k£557k
  • 2024£614k£565k
  • 2023£371k£360k
Earlier years
  • 2022£372k£376k
  • 2021£772k£723k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 15%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

A) TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICT OF SWALE AND NEIGHBOURING AREAS OF KENT AND MEDWAY, IN PARTICULAR, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS;B) THE PROMOTION OF THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICT OF SWALE AND NEIGHBOURING AREAS OF KENT AND MEDWAY (THE AREA OF BENEFIT) IN PARTICULAR BY BUILDING THE CAPACITY OF CHARITABLE AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS OPERATING WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT AND PROVIDING THEM WITH THE NECESSARY ADVICE, SUPPORT, INFORMATION, TRAINING AND SERVICES TO ENABLE THEM TO PURSUE THEIR CHARITABLE PURPOSE AND IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY AND MANAGEMENT OF THEIR RESOURCES.FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CLAUSE “THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR” MEANS CHARITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS DEFINED AS FOLLOWS: “CHARITIES” ARE ORGANISATIONS, WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES. “VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS” ARE INDEPENDENT ORGANISATIONS, WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR PURPOSES THAT ADD VALUE TO THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE, OR A SIGNIFICANT SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY, AND WHICH ARE NOT PERMITTED BY THEIR CONSTITUTION TO MAKE A PROFIT FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION. VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS DO NOT INCLUDE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OR OTHER STATUTORY AUTHORITIES

Grants received

8 grants · £197,880 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 Heritage Fund · £81,800
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £51,278 (3 grants)
  • Sport England · £29,612 (2 grants)
  • Postcode Society Trust · £25,000
  • CAF · £10,190

Most recent

  • Sport England £14,9902025-12-05
  • Postcode Society Trust £25,0002025-06-30
  • Sport England £14,6222024-07-03
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £20,0002024-04-26
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,9722021-10-15
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.

8 trustees on the board

5.6y median 7y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (3)

3
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 8General Charitable Purposes 7Economic/community Development/employment 6The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 2Recreation 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.

Health and social care 3Arts and leisure 2Business services 1

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.

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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£513k 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.

9.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 6.0 in 2021

11 from 8 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
1179734
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 30 Aug 2018
Contact on the register
01795473828 · office@swalecvs.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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