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Registered charity (CIO) · Lancashire

Bury Voluntary Community & Faith Alliance

The promotion of efficiency and effectiveness of voluntary organisations, Charities, Community & Faith Groups (VCF) for the public benefit by giving advice and assistance to VCF organisations working in Bury and the surrounding areas to enable them...

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £972k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th 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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Public contracts won

1 contract · £81,000 total

From Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, the UK Government's public procurement notices, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Matched to this organisation by company number, charity number or exact name and postcode; every figure links to its source notice.

  • Bury Older People's Network and Bury Dementia Co-Production Network Buyer: Metropolitan borough of Bury £81,000 2026-07-30 Source: Find a Tender

    The provider will be supported and enabled by Officers of the Council to lead on engagement and develop a brief high-level vision statement and detailed action plan for each group, reflective of the needs and aspirations of our ageing popul…

About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Bury
Website
www.buryvcfa.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2019

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£972k£855k
  • 2024£919k£965k
  • 2023£757k£794k
Earlier years
  • 2022£696k£714k
  • 2021£596k£522k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 17% · Government grants 7%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

The promotion of efficiency and effectiveness of voluntary organisations, Charities, Community & Faith Groups (VCF) for the public benefit by giving advice and assistance to VCF organisations working in Bury and the surrounding areas to enable them to meet their purposes.

Grants received

6 grants · £360,921 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 · £322,416 (3 grants)
  • Forever Manchester · £21,741 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £16,764

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £264,8262025-10-15
  • Forever Manchester £16,7642020-09-21
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £16,7642020-09-21
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £48,3502020-05-26
  • Forever Manchester £4,9772020-04-17

Grants given

16 grants · £28,842 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 recipients

Most recent

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.

9 trustees on the board

4.3y median 4y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (2)

1
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 9Economic/community Development/employment 8The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 8Education/training 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.

Business services 1Hospitality 1

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£972k 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.

2.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 1.3 in 2021

15 from 11 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.
24%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1182039
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - ASSOCIATION Registered 14 Feb 2019 as amended on 17 Sep 2020 as amended on 26 Mar 2024
Contact on the register
01615185550 · admin@buryvcfa.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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