SANDWELL CITIZENS ADVOCACY

Registered charity 1019779 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SANDWELL ADVOCACY

To relieve the needs or disability of persons within the borough of Sandwell who suffer an impairment of their mental or physical faculties or who are vulnerable or at risk

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEED OR DISABILITY OF PERSONS WITHIN THE BOROUGH OF SANDWELL SUFFERING ANY IMPAIRMENT OF THEIR MENTAL OR PHYSICAL FACILITIES.

Area of benefit: BOROUGH OF SANDWELL

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sandwell, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £22,363 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted fund balances increasing to £174,110. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, adopting the going concern basis of accounting. No material uncertainties or risks to continuing operations were disclosed in the filing.

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 4 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Sandwell Citizens Advocacy (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gurdeep Hanspaulchair
• Cherry Simms
• Daljit Kumar
• Geraldine Brown
• PATRICIA GOLDING

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

Operates in: Sandwell

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CITIZENS ADVICE SOUTH WARWICKSHIRE.

• CITIZENS ADVICE SOUTH WARWICKSHIRE income £1.1m
• BARROW CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £453k
• Citizens Advice Sandwell & Walsall Ltd income £2.1m
• SANDWELL ASIAN FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICE LIMITED income £872k
• WANDSWORTH CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX LIMITED income £2.2m
• CITIZENS ADVICE SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE income £964k

Side by side with its peers

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