Prepared for Community and Voluntary Action (CAVA), Solihull Office by Adrian Taylor, 2026-10-05. If you work there and would rather this page came down, say so and it comes down.
Community and Voluntary Action (CAVA), Solihull Office: what the records show, and what we could do together
Adrian Taylor runs Charity in a Box, after twenty years working in charities and public services. About Adrian.
1. What you say, and where we read it
We read your website (CONTACT US - WCAVA) and your public channels.
Your channels: youtube (read); linkedin (closed to readers, not read); facebook (closed to readers, not read); instagram (closed to readers, not read).
2. Warwickshire’s charities, from outside
671 charities are based in Warwickshire, 11.2 for every 10,000 residents, where 17% of residents are on low incomes. 18% show under three months’ reserves or three years of deficits on their latest return; 6% take half or more of their income from government. The five largest hold 35% of the area’s charity income.
The 25 fields, against England
For each field of charity work we have mapped, where Warwickshire stands among England’s 152 areas for the presence of the national network per person in need. Gold bars are the fields where no presence is recorded here (6 of 25) and those in the thinnest fifth of areas (1).
Befriending
Legal help
Older people living alone
Rural communities
Learning disability
Youth centres
Young people
Food aid
Unpaid carers
Young people with SEND
Community foundations
Mental health
Drug and alcohol services
Families with young children
Local infrastructure
Hospice care
Homelessness
Community transport
Kidney patients
Cadets
Almshouses
Veterans
Disability services
Dyslexia
Riding for the disabled
Warwickshire: the bar is where the area stands among England's 152 areasnone recorded here, or in the thinnest fifthEngland's median area
Point at a bar for its figures.
Who does the work here, by register purpose
Warwickshire671 charities
Education/training329
General charitable purposes188
Religious activities174
Health126
Poverty relief110
Disability105
Amateur sport103
Arts, culture, heritage, sci…95
Environment75
Economic/community developme…75
Other purposes68
Recreation64
A charity records up to three purposes, so the circles overlap. Point at one for its count.
Researchers who studied how charities support people with dementia across the United Kingdom concluded:
“National and local data sources could help charities and commissioners begin to identify inequalities of provision.”
Mayrhofer, Goodman, Lafortune, Smeeton, Littlechild, Shora and Bunn, Voluntary Sector Review, first published 2021. Read the paper.
This page is that view for Warwickshire.
3. Sample campaign
Three posts in your voice from the figures above, each with its picture, ready to use. Every figure is from public information and no charity is named.
Bluesky / X: 671 charities are based in Warwickshire: 11.2 for every 10,000 residents. We've read what they say they do. https://www.charityinabox.uk/offers/community-and-voluntary-action-cava-solihull-office.html
LinkedIn: 671 charities are based in Warwickshire: 11.2 for every 10,000 residents. We've read what they say they do. https://www.charityinabox.uk/offers/community-and-voluntary-action-cava-solihull-office.html
Built from public information; no charity is named.
Bluesky / X: 18% of Warwickshire's charities show under three months' reserves or three years of deficits on their latest return. Which fields, and who else is at work: https://www.charityinabox.uk/offers/community-and-voluntary-action-cava-solihull-office.html
LinkedIn: 18% of Warwickshire's charities show under three months' reserves or three years of deficits on their latest return. Which fields, and who else is at work: https://www.charityinabox.uk/offers/community-and-voluntary-action-cava-solihull-office.html
Built from public information; no charity is named.
Bluesky / X: Across 25 fields of charity work, the national network has little or no presence in Warwickshire in 7 of them: befriending, legal help, older people living alone. https://www.charityinabox.uk/offers/community-and-voluntary-action-cava-solihull-office.html
LinkedIn: Across 25 fields of charity work, the national network has little or no presence in Warwickshire in 7 of them: befriending, legal help, older people living alone. https://www.charityinabox.uk/offers/community-and-voluntary-action-cava-solihull-office.html
Built from public information; no charity is named.
Your area's charities from outside: how many, how exposed, which fields of charity work are thin here, who else does the work the known networks don't, what the money looks like, the year-on-year change. A page like this one, in full, refreshed each quarter as the new reports arrive.
£600 once, or £1,200 a year with four refreshes
The members' view
The same page for each of your member organisations' fields, so a member sees where it stands beside the rest of its field in your area.
from £1,500 a year, by your income band
A campaign from the findings
Three to five posts a month in your voice, each with its picture, from your area's own figures.
£250 a month
The first month: a twenty-minute call, your page in full within a week, and the first campaign posts the week after. Prices are set by income band from the public register and are the same for everyone in the band.
5. How to say yes
Reply to the email with a day that suits, call or text Adrian on the number in the email (it is on the Contact page too), or write to adrian@charityinabox.uk.
What this can and cannot say. These are counts over groups of charities and places from their own returns and reports and from national statistics. They do not rank any charity, name any, or say why. A thin field is one where the known network is thin for the people counted here, not one where nobody is helped.
Built from public information: the Charity Commission for England and Wales register and the annual reports charities file with it (OGL v3.0); Census 2021 (ONS); the English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG); the Claimant Count (ONS). Privacy.
