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Registered charity · Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton Voluntary and Community Action

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £1.5m (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, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Economic/community Development/employment and 1 more
Where
Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall, Wolverhampton
Website
www.wvca.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Wolverhampton Voluntary and Community Action
Registered
1988

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.5m£1.5m
  • 2024£1.6m£1.7m
  • 2023£2.6m£3.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.0m£3.0m
  • 2021£3.6m£3.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 13% · Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(I) TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY WITHIN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICT OF THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF WOLVERHAMPTON AND SPECIFICALLY. (II) TO PROVIDE, OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE, FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE SAID COMMUNITY. (III) TO PROVIDE FOR THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS. (IV) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION.

Grants received

19 grants · £14,625,587 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 · £13,645,612 (8 grants)
  • Comic Relief · £460,507
  • Department of Health and Social Care · £273,170 (3 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport · £151,034 (2 grants)
  • Barrow Cadbury Trust · £43,200

Most recent

  • Coop Foundation £11,0352020-12-18
  • Department of Health and Social Care £41,1862020-04-28
  • Coop Foundation £6,3052019-10-03
  • Department of Health and Social Care £84,8842019-04-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £17,3622019-04-01
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.

6 trustees on the board

6.2y median 5.5y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (1)

5
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 6General Charitable Purposes 6The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 6

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 7Health and social care 2Arts and leisure 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£1.5m 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.

4.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.0 in 2021

33 from 48 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.
15%
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
700910
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 19/08/1988AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/03/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04/10/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/12/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08 JUL 2014 as amended on 08 Jul 2014 as amended on 07 Feb 2019 as amended on 20 Jul 2022
Companies House
Company number 02288239 · Active
Contact on the register
01902773761 · info@wvca.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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