YOUR VOICE ADVOCACY PROJECT

Registered charity 1001271 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE FORUM, WEST GLAMORGAN FORUM

Your Voice Advocacy provides advocacy and other services for people with learning disabilities across the local authority areas of Neath Port Talbot and Swansea. We currently provide a listening service, peer advocacy social groups and promote self advocacy.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES TO ADVANCE THEIR EDUCATION AND TRAINING, TO RELIEVE POVERTY, TO ADVANCE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND TO ASSIST FAMILIES

Area of benefit: FORMER WEST GLAMORGAN & CARMARTHENSHIRE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Swansea, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing of £720 for the year, resulting in unrestricted free reserves of £865. This actual reserve level is significantly below the trustees' stated policy target of £22,154, which represents three months of direct charitable costs. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• 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
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 14/05/2024, 104 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Your Voice Advocacy Project (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/09/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adam Dawkins
• Adelaide Morgan
• Carl Steven West
• Robert Morris

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: City Of Swansea · Neath Port Talbot

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YOUR VOICE COUNTS.

• YOUR VOICE COUNTS income £2.1m
• VOICEABILITY ADVOCACY income £15.9m
• VOCAL ADVOCACY income £208k
• SPEAKUP SELF ADVOCACY LIMITED income £657k
• INDEPENDENT ADVOCACY NORTH EAST income £302k
• THE ADVOCACY PROJECT income £1.9m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.