Lancaster District Community & Voluntary Solutions

Analysis

Lancaster District Community & Voluntary Solutions is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Lancaster. It was registered in January 2009, 17 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 06743623). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending June 2025, Lancaster District Community & Voluntary Solutions reported income of £766k and spending of £882k, spending 115% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2021 to June 2025, income grew from £336k to £766k (+128%), an average of +23% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 110%. Over the whole period it spent 101% 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, Lancaster District Community & Voluntary Solutions 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 92nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Search: Services for Older People CIO (£762k), The Mowgli Trust (£766k) and Age Cymru West Glamorgan Limited (£758k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 90%, trading 8.9% and investments 1.3%. Charitable activities took 87% of spending and raising funds 13%. Grants to other organisations totalled £337k. Reserves of £463k would cover about 6 months of spending at that rate. It employed 11 people.