Community Voluntary Car Service

Analysis

Community Voluntary Car Service is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Lincolnshire. It was registered in July 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it provides human resources.

In the financial year ending September 2025, Community Voluntary Car Service reported income of £23k and spending of £25k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to September 2025, income fell from £32k to £23k (-28%), an average of -7.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2024, when income dropped by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 122% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Community Voluntary Car Service sits at the 40th percentile: it is larger than about 40% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 47th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Spalding Hospice Foundation (£23k), Hastings Sierra Leone Friendship Link (£23k) and The Harvey McWilliams Foundation (£23k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.