COMMUNITY ACTION ISLE OF WIGHT

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  3 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

1. COMMUNITY ACTION ISLE OF WIGHT 2012-06-07 → present
2. ISLE OF WIGHT RURAL COMMUNITY COUNCIL 1997-03-25 → 2012-06-07

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

MC Audit Limited

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”

Group structure

1. COMMUNITY ACTION ISLE OF WIGHT · parent
   1. Island Community Ventures Limited 100% · England and Wales · Village shop and post office services
   2. Riverside Ventures (Isle of Wight) Limited 100% · England and Wales · Management of bookings/activities/events at Riverside Centre

Significant events

• “The year has, again, been a challenging one, but perhaps not as bad as what might be on the horizon. Inflationary pressures on operational costs and public sector funding reductions and ever increasing competitiveness for grant funding of all shapes and sizes combined to create a difficult but not impossible operating environment for 2024/25.”
• “We continued to help build the skills and capacity of the local voluntary and community sector delivering training on a wide range of subjects: fundraising, project management, motivational interviewing, first aid, accessibility awareness, safeguarding vulnerable adults and many more.”
• “Our Volunteer Centre service continued to promote and facilitate local volunteering, holding a variety of promotional events to help the local sector recruit new volunteers and facilitating regular Volunteer Managers Network meetings to promote and support best practice in volunteer recruitment and management.”
• “In partnership with other charities, we continued to deliver the Healthwatch service for the Island, helping to identify challenges and concerns in the delivery of health and social care services on the Island and also proposing improvements and solutions.”
• “Community Action IW also delivered a Rural Housing Enabler role with the aim of facilitating the acceptance of the need and improved partnership working to support the development of affordable housing units.”
• “We have maintained our new Community Law Service to help people at risk of eviction and similar challenging scenarios and have been seeking further income streams to try and build the service.”
• “Through one of its trading arm Island Community ventures Ltd a village shop and post office service is maintained in one village and a further three outreach post office services delivered in other villages, helping to maintain this much needed but under threat facility for rural parts of the Island.”
• “Funders during the year included The National Lottery, Isle of Wight Council, DEFRA and the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner.”
• “No new organisational developments have taken place for the charity.”
• “The financial reserves of the charity are still solid and more than sufficient. A range of grants continue to be accessed, paid for services continue to be self sustaining but efforts to increase self sustainability of other work through trading, continues to be difficult.”
• “We continue to pursue the development of new services that bring benefit to Island residents but inevitably not all will be successful and in addition some existing projects and services may come to an end.”
• “Despite the huge challenges we have faced in the last few years Community Action IW remains in a solid position and will continue to work with partners, funders and residents to fulfil its purpose.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

8

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

3

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +15%

  £1,013,032 → £1,164,617

• Cash

  +17.9%

  £654,292 → £771,511

• Net assets

  +16.6%

  £807,137 → £940,950

• Employees

  +6.9%

  58 → 62

• Wages

  +9.9%

  £985,308 → £1,083,185

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers