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Registered charity · Sheffield

Voluntary Action Sheffield

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £3.7m (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, Education/training, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.vas.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Voluntary Action Sheffield
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.7m£2.6m
  • 2024£3.3m£3.3m
  • 2023£3.1m£2.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.4m£1.9m
  • 2021£3.0m£2.6m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 7% · Government grants 21%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, PRINCIPALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD AND ELSEWHERE (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE "AREA OF BENEFIT") AND, IN PARTICULAR, BUILD THE CAPACITY OF THIRD SECTOR ORGANISATIONS AND PROVIDE THEM WITH THE NECESSARY SUPPORT, INFORMATION AND SERVICES TO ENABLE THEM TO PURSUE OR CONTRIBUTE TO ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE.

Grants received

13 grants · £4,187,720 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 · £2,262,527 (8 grants)
  • Department for Education · £1,057,043
  • Sheffield City Council · £698,150 (2 grants)
  • Paul Hamlyn Foundation · £170,000 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £334,7612023-04-21
  • Sheffield City Council £90,3302022-12-05
  • Sheffield City Council £607,8202022-12-05
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £100,0002020-08-19
  • Department for Education £1,057,0432020-04-01
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
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (3)

8
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 9Education/training 9General 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.

Education 12Other services 10Arts and leisure 4

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£3.7m 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.

1.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 7.8 in 2021

55 from 50 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.
28%
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
223007
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION INCORP 16 AUGUST 1926 AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS 31 MARCH 1950, 1 NOV 1976,13 JULY 1987, 11 SEPT 1990, 15 JUNE 1995, 21 OCT 1999, 16 NOV 2004 AND 23 NOV 2009 AND BY CERT.OF INCORP RE CHANGE OF NAME DATED 26 JULY 1989 as amended on 09 Dec 2013 as amended on 20 Nov 2024
Companies House
Company number 00215695 · Active
Contact on the register
01142536607 · info@vas.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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