The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

Volunteering Matters

Registered charity 291222 Registered since 1985

Operates: Throughout England And Wales, Scotland

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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.

9 trustees on the board

2.4y median 2y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (2)

8
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 8Environment/conservation/heritage 7The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 2Disability 1Economic/community Development/employment 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.

Education 14Health and social care 4Other services 3

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£5.7m 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.

2.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 3.5 in 2021

142 from 122 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.
40%
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.volunteeringmatters.org.uk
Emailinfo@volunteeringmatters.org.uk
Phone02037805870
AddressThe Levy Centre, 22-24 Lower Clapton Road, London, E5 0PD

Finances

£5,695,000 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£5,202,000£5,548,000
2022£7,459,000£7,778,000
2023£22,827,000£14,478,000
2024£7,029,000£6,585,000
2025£5,695,000£5,815,000

What it does

What

General Charitable PurposesEducation/trainingEnvironment/conservation/heritageEconomic/community Development/employment

Who

Children/young PeopleElderly/old PeoplePeople With DisabilitiesOther Charities Or Voluntary Bodies

How

Makes Grants To OrganisationsProvides Human ResourcesProvides ServicesProvides Advocacy/advice/information

Charitable objects

2 Objects2.1 The Charity's objects are restricted specifically, in each case, only for the public benefit to:(a) The advancement of community development for the public benefit through the promotion of volunteering. (b) the advancement of education and training including (but without limitation) of persons who, due to their social or economic circumstances or otherwise, are in need and unable to gain employment in the United Kingdom.2.2 Nothing in these Articles shall authorise an application of the property of the Charity for purposes which are not charitable in accordance with any statutory provision regarding the meaning of the word "charitable" or the words "charitable purposes" in force in any part of the United Kingdom including (without limitation) an application of the property of the Charity for purposes which are not charitable in accordance with section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 27 DECEMBER 1983 AMENDED BY RESOLUTIONS DATED 24 MAY 1984, 15 OCTOBER 1992, 24 OCTOBER 2001, 7 NOVEMBER 2002 AND 9 NOVEMBER 2010 (FILED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 26 NOVEMBER 2010) as amended on 01 Apr 2001 as amended on 01 Apr 2021 as amended on 21 Mar 2026

Trustees (9)

9trustees
51median age
2aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Volunteering Matters · 01435877 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 10/07/1979

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (3)

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