Liverpool Charity and Voluntary Services

Analysis

Liverpool Charity and Voluntary Services is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Liverpool. It was registered in August 1964, 62 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 00181759). It says it makes grants to organisations and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Liverpool Charity and Voluntary Services reported income of £2.6m and spending of £3.0m, spending 117% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £2.8m to £2.6m (-9.8%), an average of -2.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 141%. Over the whole period it spent 106% 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, Liverpool Charity and Voluntary Services sits at the 98th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 97th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The McLain Foundation Limited (£2.5m), The Barbour Foundation (£2.6m) and The Katherine Martin Charitable Trust (£2.5m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 98% and investments 1.4%. Charitable activities took 97% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Grants to other organisations totalled £998k. Reserves of £248k would cover about 1 months of spending at that rate. It employed 25 people.