Voluntary Sector North West

Analysis

Voluntary Sector North West is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Manchester. It was registered in July 2000, 26 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 03988903). It says it acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Voluntary Sector North West reported income of £1.2m and spending of £1.1m, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £380k to £1.2m (+220%), an average of +34% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 121%. Over the whole period it spent 92% 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, Voluntary Sector North West sits at the 96th percentile: it is larger than about 96% 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 Bedworth, Rugby and Nuneaton Citizens Advice Bureau (£1.2m), Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology (£1.2m) and The Hugh Mumford Charitable Trust (£1.2m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 100%. Charitable activities took 98% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Grants to other organisations totalled £324k. Reserves of £421k would cover about 4 months of spending at that rate. It employed 12 people.