Amber Valley Council for Voluntary Service

Analysis

Amber Valley Council for Voluntary Service is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Derbyshire. It was registered in March 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 04763194). It says it makes grants to organisations, provides human resources and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Amber Valley Council for Voluntary Service reported income of £1.2m and spending of £1.3m, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £909k to £1.2m (+35%), an average of +7.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Amber Valley Council for Voluntary Service 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 95th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Tayyab Trust UK (£1.2m), Bishops Stortford Mencap (£1.2m) and Uniting Friends Ltd (£1.2m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 97% and trading 2.5%. Charitable activities took 99% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Reserves of £291k would cover about 3 months of spending at that rate. It employed 91 people.

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.