PROTECT (WHISTLEBLOWING ADVICE) LIMITED
Registered charity 1025557 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PUBLIC CONCERN AT WORK, THE WHISTLEBLOWING CHARITY
Protect - the whistleblowing charity - promotes individual responsibility and organisational accountability. We strive to ensure that genuine concerns about wrongdoing in the workplace are raised and dealt with constructively. We offer confidential advice to employees, provide professional services to organisations and promote public interest whistleblowing.
Causes: Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity finished the year with an operating deficit of £123,870, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £201,808. This reserve level is just below the newly agreed recommended range of £235,001 to £335,000. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £202k; policy: £235,001 to £335,000)
“At the end of 2025 the charity had unrestricted reserves of £201,808 which is just below the recommended range.” — page 6
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: The charity paid a membership fee to the Whistleblowing International Network, a charity on which Joint Chief Executive Elizabeth Gardiner sits as a trustee.
“During the year the charity paid a membership fee to the Whistleblowing International Network, a charity on which Joint Chief Executive Elizabeth Gardiner sits as a trustee. The arrangement was approved by a Trustee.” — page 7
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Year-over-year changes
- Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).
Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.
Corporate structure
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Protect (Whistleblowing Advice) (matched by registered charity number).
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Elizabeth Gardiner — Joint Chief Executive (source)
- Sybille Raphael — Joint Chief Executive (source)
- Lucy McLynn — Chair (source)
- Suki Kaur — Head of Advice (source)
- Jon Cunningham — Business Development Director (source)
Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.
Company officers (Companies House)
Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.
- GAUDION, Sally Ann — director, appointed 13/05/2026on trustee list
- MURDOCH, Stephen James — director, appointed 12/11/2024on trustee list
- GELB, Mallary — director, appointed 12/11/2024on trustee list
- SPARKES, Gayle Elizabeth — director, appointed 12/11/2024on trustee list
- O'FLAHERTY, Damien Francis — director, appointed 17/09/2024on trustee list
- MCLYNN, Lucy — director, appointed 03/07/2023on trustee list
- GRAHAM, Julia Helen Mary — director, appointed 29/11/2021on trustee list
- WANSBROUGH-LLOYD, Rebecca — director, appointed 12/05/2021on trustee list
- WIDDOWSON, David Graeme — director, appointed 05/10/2018on trustee list
- LINFORD, Rebecca Elizabeth — secretary, appointed 06/02/2025
Official officers record.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): linkedin
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£12k
Reported reserves equal ~2.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
- Lucy McLynnchair · trustee of 1 other charity
- DAVID GRAEME WIDDOWSON · trustee of 1 other charity
- Damien Francis O'Flaherty
- Gayle Elizabeth Sparkes
- Julia Helen Mary Graham
- Mallary Gelb
- Rebecca Wansbrough-Lloyd
- Sally Ann Gaudion
- Stephen Murdoch
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales
Income and spending
Common questions
Is PROTECT (WHISTLEBLOWING ADVICE) LIMITED financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity finished the year with an operating deficit of £123,870, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £201,808. This reserve level is just below the newly agreed recommended range of £235,001 to £335,000. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Azets Audit Services.
Who funds PROTECT (WHISTLEBLOWING ADVICE) LIMITED?
Funders whose own accounts filings name PROTECT (WHISTLEBLOWING ADVICE) LIMITED as a grant recipient include JOFFE CHARITABLE TRUST CIO, THE A B CHARITABLE TRUST.
Known funders
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