GWASANAETH ADFOCATIAETH A CHYNGHORI GOGLEDD CYMRU'

Registered charity 1060826 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NORTH WALES ADVICE AND ADVOCACY ASSOCIATION

To promote and provide advice and advocacy for people dacing disadvantage through disability, illness, age or social exclusion, who live, in particular but not exclusively, in North Wales.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF ALL PEOPLE WITH A MENTAL DISABILITY WITHIN THE COUNTIES OF ANGLESEY, GWYNEDD, DENBIGHSHIRE AND FLINTSHIRE AND THE COUNTY BOROUGHS OF CONWY AND WREXHAM AND TO ASSIST THOSE PERSONS TO OVERCOME THE DISABILITIES ATTENDANT UPON THE HANDICAP BY THE PROVISION OF A SERVICE CALCULATED TO ASSIST THEM TO OBTAIN THEIR FULL RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES AS CITIZENS AND TO LIVE AS INDEPENDENTLY AND AS NORMALLY AS POSSIBLE

Area of benefit: COUNTIES OF ANGLESEY, GWYNEDD, DENBIGHSHIRE, FLINTSHIRE AND COUNTY BOROUGHS OF CONWY AND WREXHAM

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £442,949, with no restricted funds held at year-end. The trustees confirm the charity is a going concern, citing sufficient resources to meet liabilities despite reduced income from contract losses. The organization operates with a small staff of 9 full-time equivalents and maintains a positive net income for the year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by WJ Matthews and Son. 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.

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 07/03/2024, 36 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03308387

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.

• BASA, Jenny Rose — director, appointed 01/11/2024on trustee list
• HART, Michael Collins — director, appointed 01/11/2024on trustee list
• TEBBUTT, Deborah Eve — director, appointed 21/10/2020on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Betty Helena — director, appointed 01/09/2015on trustee list
• THOMAS, Emlyn Pennant — director, appointed 01/12/2003on trustee list
• STEVENS, Jonathan Nathaniel — secretary, appointed 23/02/2023

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• EMLYN PENANT THOMASchair
• BETTY HELENA WILLIAMS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Deborah Tebbutt
• JENNY ROSE BASA
• Michael HART

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

Operates in: Conwy · Denbighshire · Flintshire · Gwynedd · Isle Of Anglesey · Liverpool City · Staffordshire · Wigan · Wirral · Wrexham

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Advocacy West Wales - Eiriolaeth Gorllewin Cymru.

• Advocacy West Wales - Eiriolaeth Gorllewin Cymru income £842k
• CITIZENS ADVICE GATESHEAD income £7.2m
• AGE CYMRU GWENT income £1.9m
• ADVOCACY SUPPORT IN CYMRU LTD income £2.4m
• GOWLING WLG (UK) CHARITABLE TRUST income £164k
• GWASANAETH CYNNAL GOFALWYR (CARERS OUTREACH SERVICE) income £777k

Side by side with its peers

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