The Voluntary and Community Sector Learning and Skills Consortium

Analysis

The Voluntary and Community Sector Learning and Skills Consortium is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Nottingham. It was registered in September 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under community and economic development. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 04717124). It says it provides services and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending July 2023, The Voluntary and Community Sector Learning and Skills Consortium reported income of £1.5m and spending of £1.6m, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from July 2021 to July 2023, income grew from £1.3m to £1.5m (+16%), an average of +7.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2023, when income rose by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 1,869 England and Wales charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, The Voluntary and Community Sector Learning and Skills Consortium sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% 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 Tyne North Training Limited (£1.5m), Harrow Together (£1.5m) and Higham Hall College (£1.5m).

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 £874k. Reserves of £173k would cover about 1 months of spending at that rate. It employed 10 people.

Data notes from the register: The regulator lists this charity as in double default: it has missed the deadline for its annual return or accounts in two or more successive years.