The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

York Centre for Voluntary Service

Registered charity 225087 Registered since 1963

Operates: North Yorkshire, City Of York

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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.

11 trustees on the board

3y median 3y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure
2
trustees past 6 years
7.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (2)

11
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 11Education/training 11General Charitable Purposes 11

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 11Education 9Arts and leisure 2

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£1.7m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

2.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 5.3 in 2021

41 from 31 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.
51%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.yorkcvs.org.uk
Phone01904621133
AddressYORK CENTRE FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE, PRIORY STREET CENTRE, 15 PRIORY STREET, YORK, YO1 6ET

Finances

£1,673,855 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£1,090,198£1,008,852
2022£1,693,035£1,479,766
2023£1,885,337£1,927,437
2024£1,980,625£2,073,390
2025£1,673,855£1,725,415

What it does

What

General Charitable PurposesEducation/trainingEconomic/community Development/employment

Who

Children/young PeopleElderly/old PeoplePeople With DisabilitiesOther Charities Or Voluntary BodiesThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides Human ResourcesProvides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides ServicesProvides Advocacy/advice/informationActs As An Umbrella Or Resource Body

Charitable objects

A. TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY AND, IN PARTICULAR, THE FURTHERANCE OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS OPERATING IN THE CITY OF YORK, NORTH YORKSHIRE, THE HUMBER AND THEIR ENVIRONS HEREINAFTER CALLED 'THE AREA OF BENEFIT'.B. TO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO-OPERATION IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES AND TO THAT END TO BRING TOGETHER IN COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS, BUSINESSES AND STATUTORY AUTHORITIES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 30/03/1951AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12/12/1983AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/09/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/07/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/11/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04/11/2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/11/2013AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 13/12/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07 DEC 2016 as amended on 16 Dec 2020 as amended on 08 Dec 2025

Trustees (11)

11trustees
43median age
0aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

York Centre for Voluntary Service · 00493550 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 30/03/1951

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (2)

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