Glamorgan Voluntary Services

Analysis

Glamorgan Voluntary Services is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Vale of Glamorgan. It was registered in August 2015, 11 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 09517850). It says it acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Glamorgan Voluntary Services reported income of £1.1m and spending of £1.0m, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £1.1m to £1.1m (+5.3%), an average of +1.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income rose by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 96% 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, Glamorgan Voluntary Services sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Gnanam Foundation (£1.1m), Age UK North Cumbria (£1.1m) and The Dyers' Company Charitable Trust (£1.1m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 85%, trading 12% and investments 2.8%. Charitable activities took 98% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Grants to other organisations totalled £332k. Reserves of £455k would cover about 5 months of spending at that rate. It employed 14 people.