Registered charity · Hertfordshire

Dacorum Council for Voluntary Service

13 trustees
Income £3.1m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Economic/community Development/employment
Where: Hertfordshire
Website: www.communityactiondacorum.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: Dacorum Council for Voluntary Service
Registered: 1983

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£3.1m£3.0m
2024£3.1m£2.8m
2023£3.1m£2.8m

Earlier years

2022£3.0m£2.5m
2021£2.0m£1.9m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 77% · Government grants 13%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(1) TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, PRINCIPALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF DACORUM AND ITS ENVIRONS (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. 4(2) TO PROMOTE, ORGANISE AND FACILITATE CO-OPERATION AND PARTNERSHIP WORKING BETWEEN THIRD SECTOR, STATUTORY AND OTHER RELEVANT BODIES IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.4(3) FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS ARTICLE 4:(A) “THIRD SECTOR” MEANS CHARITIES, VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND SOCIAL ENTERPRISES.(B) “CHARITIES” ARE ORGANISATIONS WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES. (C) “VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND SOCIAL ENTERPRISES” 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 AND SOCIAL ENTERPRISES DO NOT INCLUDE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OR OTHER STATUTORY AUTHORITIES.”

Grants received

20 grants · £395,393 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 · £260,493 (6 grants)
Hertfordshire Community Foundation · £70,880 (10 grants)
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities · £59,020 (3 grants)
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation · £5,000

Most recent

Hertfordshire Community Foundation £5,0002024-06-28
The National Lottery Community Fund £188,1692024-06-06
Hertfordshire Community Foundation £5,0002023-10-09
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities £19,8802023-04-01
Hertfordshire Community Foundation £9,9702022-07-21

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.

13 trustees on the board

2.8y median 3y

average tenure

longest tenure

trustees past 6 years

18.7y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (7)

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 13Education/training 12Economic/community Development/employment 8The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 2Amateur Sport 1Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Religious Activities 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.

Other services 20Arts and leisure 4Business services 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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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£3.1m 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.

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

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.

90%

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: 288080
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 12/08/1983AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 31/07/2015 as amended on 15 Dec 2022 as amended on 07 Dec 2023
Companies House: Company number 01745852 · Active
Contact on the register: 01442253935 · reception@communityactiondacorum.org.uk
Edition: Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels: Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

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