Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 5

Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 6

VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY ACTION SUNDERLAND

To promote any charitable purposes for the benefit of the wider community in the City ofSunderland,and in particular the advancement of education,the furtherance of health and the relief of poverty, distress and sickness.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

Established: 34 years
(40 years as a company)

www.vcas2020.org

info@vcas.org.uk

0191 5651566

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23	*	£24	£77	£-53	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/22		£20	£45	£-25	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/21		£65	£54	£10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/20		£15	£36	£-21	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/19		£24	£93	£-69	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/18		£37	£125	£-88	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£103	£174	£-71	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£137	£187	£-50	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£148	£212	£-64	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£289	£353	£-64	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£208	£242	£-34	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£552	£327	£225	£49	£630	£629	23.1	13	0
31/03/11		£352	£320	£32	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£390	£358	£32	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£393	£319	£74	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£428	£405	£23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07		£458	£235	£223	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06		£230	£217	£13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£195	£192	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04		£151	£195	£-43	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Armed Forces/Emergency Service Efficiency
Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Disability
Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage
General Charitable Purposes
Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
Other Charitable Purposes
Recreation
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Makes Grants to Organisations
Other charitable activities
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides human resources
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Sunderland,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
2 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years

National Lottery Community Fund	£49,400
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd	£20,000
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland	£10,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Voluntary and Community Action Sunderland
£10,000	17/03/2022	Core staffing costs for local infrastructure recovery support following COVID-19 in 2022/2023
National Lottery Community Fund - Sunderland VCSE Market Place: Connect Engage and Organise
£9,950	19/11/2021	The funding will be used to provide capacity building support events for VCS organisations to train community groups to develop partnerships and collaborations. This aims to reduce isolation and will ....more The funding will be used to provide capacity building support events for VCS organisations to train community groups to develop partnerships and collaborations. This aims to reduce isolation and will improve local organisations' ability to deal with local community needs and challenges.
National Lottery Community Fund - Covid-19 Community Led Engagement and Recovery
£29,600	15/09/2020 6	Voluntary and Community Action Sunderland (VCAS) is based in Sunderland and is the infrastructure organisation for voluntary and charity groups based in the city. VCAS will use funding to support the ....more Voluntary and Community Action Sunderland (VCAS) is based in Sunderland and is the infrastructure organisation for voluntary and charity groups based in the city. VCAS will use funding to support the sector as it moves from the initial impact of COVID-19 and works to support the sector moving forwards.
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Additional charitable expenditure incurred in Supporting charities and other community organisations during the COVID-19 pandemic
£10,000	30/04/2020	Additional charitable expenditure incurred in Supporting charities and other community organisations during the COVID-19 pandemic
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - additional charitable expenditure incurred in supporting charities and other community organisations during the COVID-19 pandemic
£10,000	30/04/2020	additional charitable expenditure incurred in supporting charities and other community organisations during the COVID-19 pandemic
National Lottery Community Fund - VCAS HIE:High Impact Engagement.
£9,850	19/09/2019 12	VCAS HIE:High Impact Engagement.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 44-74

ALAN CUMMINGS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeship: LIVING HISTORY (NORTH EAST) LIMITED,

AMANDA LOWERY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Chief Executive

KUMARESWARADAS RAMANATHAS Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Project Manager

KATHERINE LOWE Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Manager

PAUL BRIGHAM Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Building Surveyor, Other trusteeship: YOUNG ASIAN VOICES,

RACHIDY BIKAYA Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Chairperson

STEPHEN ARMSTRONG Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Manager

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 31/05/1990, number: 702930
Registered at Companies House on 06/10/1983, number: 01759477

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR23: 20 days late,

Main office

Voluntary and Community Action Sunderland
15 Norfolk Street
SUNDERLAND
SR1 1EA

Objectives

(A) TO SUPPORT VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY SECTOR ORGANISATIONS WHICH RESIDE OR OPERATE IN THE CITY OF SUNDERLAND AND IT'S IMMEDIATE SURROUNDING AREA (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE AREA OF BENEFIT) SO THAT THEY CAN FUNCTION MORE EFFECTIVELY.B) TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY, IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, SPORT AND LEISURE, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS.C) TO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO-OPERATION IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES AND TO THAT END TO BRING TOGETHER REPRESENTATIVES OF THE VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND STATUTORY AUTHORITIES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

BOROUGH OF SUNDERLAND

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