Flintshire Local Voluntary Council

Analysis

Flintshire Local Voluntary Council is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Mold. It was registered in June 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 03301204). It says it acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Flintshire Local Voluntary Council reported income of £651k and spending of £601k, spending 92% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £734k to £651k (-11%), an average of -2.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income dropped by 36%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Flintshire Local Voluntary Council sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 91st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Little Giving (£650k), Alan Boswell Group Charitable Trust (£652k) and Friends Provident Charitable Foundation (£650k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 96% and investments 3.5%. Charitable activities took 99% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Grants to other organisations totalled £32k. Reserves of £651k would cover about 13 months of spending at that rate. It employed 13 people.