CVS Rochdale to be wound up

CVS Rochdale

CVS Rochdale (a registered charity) has called an Extra Ordinary meeting to pass a resolution to wind up the organisation and appoint an insolvency practitioner to liquidate it.

This will affect over 500 people who rely on the service Volunteer Driver Service.

Michelle Warburton, Chief Executive Officer, CVS said: “This decision was reached following the independent review, commissioned by RMBC, which revealed that the organisation had an operating defecit up to the end of December 2017, which means that our core funder (Rochdale Council) is no longer able to fund the organisation. We will therefore over the next few weeks start to wind up our service delivery.

“Rochdale Council do propose to put the Voluntary Sector Infrastructure Support Services and Volunteer Driver Service out to tender so we are aiming to make interim arrangements to ensure the continuation of the Volunteer Driver Service and Health & Wellbeing Alliance in the interim.

“Thanks for all your support and assistance over the years.”

CVS Rochdale was established in 1975 and became incorporated as a registered charity and company limited by guarantee in 1988.

The charitable purpose of the organisation is to promote any charitable purposes for the benefit of the community within Greater Manchester in particular:

• The advancement of education.
• The furtherance of health and relief of poverty, distress and sickness.
• To provide or assist in the provision of facilities in the interest of social welfare, for recreational and other leisure time activities with the object of improving conditions of life.
• To promote and organise co-operation in the achievement of the above by bringing together representatives of the statutory authorities and voluntary organisations.

Andrea Fallon, Rochdale Borough Council’s director of public health and wellbeing, said: “The council is very sorry to learn that CVS has taken the decision to close. We have had a long-standing relationship with the organisation and prior to the announcement we had been working closely with them to help find a solution that would secure its future. As no solutions could be found, the council will now look at other alternatives for the services CVS provided.”