West Devon Community & Voluntary Services

Analysis

West Devon Community & Voluntary Services is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Okehampton. It was registered in June 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 06115797). It says it makes grants to organisations, acts as an umbrella or resource body and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending March 2025, West Devon Community & Voluntary Services reported income of £309k and spending of £343k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £262k to £309k (+18%), an average of +4.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 150%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, West Devon Community & Voluntary Services sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Me, Myself & I Neath Port Talbot (£309k), Escape Community Art in Action (£309k) and Sola Arts (£309k).