Glossop and District Volunteer Bureau

Analysis

Glossop and District Volunteer Bureau is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Glossop. It was registered in January 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under community and economic development. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 03455027). It says it makes grants to organisations, provides human resources and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Glossop and District Volunteer Bureau reported income of £961k and spending of £810k, spending 84% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £794k to £961k (+21%), an average of +4.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income dropped by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 1,869 England and Wales charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Glossop and District Volunteer Bureau sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 91% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Middlesbrough Voluntary Development Agency (£961k), The Sheffield Carers Centre (£961k) and Ealing and Hounslow Community Voluntary Service (£953k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 81%, donations and legacies 14%, trading 3.6% and investments 1.6%. Charitable activities took 70% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Reserves of £469k would cover about 7 months of spending at that rate. It employed 27 people.