Barking and Dagenham Council for Voluntary Service

Analysis

Barking and Dagenham Council for Voluntary Service is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Barking. It was registered in May 1993, 33 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 02786597). It says it makes grants to organisations, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Barking and Dagenham Council for Voluntary Service reported income of £375k and spending of £376k, spending 100% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £405k to £375k (-7.5%), an average of -1.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Barking and Dagenham Council for Voluntary Service sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Saddlers' Company Charitable Fund (£374k), UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers (£375k) and Caxton House Settlement (£374k).