ADVANCE ADVOCACY AND NON-VIOLENCE COMMUNITY EDUCATION

Registered charity 1086873 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ADVANCE

Providing advocacy and support in the community for women and children experiencing domestic abuse and sexual violence, and women who are involved in the criminal justice system and offending.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated an overall annual surplus of £417,889 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted reserves standing at £1,087,746. Per the trustees' report, the Board considers that Advance can continue its current activities with existing reserves, noting that cash balances at year-end were £1,502,393. The trustees confirmed 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 audited by Knox Cropper LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04064660

What the charity says about itself (2024)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

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.

• DZIEDZIC, Agata Paulina — director, appointed 17/01/2026on trustee list
• YUSUF, Zain Abid — director, appointed 25/11/2025on trustee list
• BOOKALLIL, Tania Louise — director, appointed 25/03/2025on trustee list
• BERG, Geraldine — director, appointed 26/03/2024on trustee list
• KING, Tracey — director, appointed 26/03/2024on trustee list
• SHORTT, Michael, Dr — director, appointed 26/03/2024on trustee list
• TEMILE, Abundance Oghenetejiri — director, appointed 07/03/2023on trustee list
• EDWARDS, Susan, Prof. — director, appointed 07/03/2023on trustee list
• GIANNOTTI, Ludovico — director, appointed 07/03/2023on trustee list
• SOULSBY, Helen Elizabeth — director, appointed 07/03/2023on trustee list
• SEDMAN, Charmian Sophie Ruth — director, appointed 22/09/2020on trustee list
• MAHADEVAN, Karthik — director, appointed 22/09/2020on trustee list
• PARSLEY, Kate — director, appointed 20/08/2019on trustee list
• MULLIN, Christine Rose Gertrude — director, appointed 11/01/2016on trustee list
• MIDWOOD, Emily — director, appointed 11/05/2015on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Abundance Temile
• Agata Paulina Dziedzic
• Anita Hamilton
• Christine Mullin
• Dr Michael Shortt
• Dr Susan Edwards · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emily Midwood
• Geraldine Marion Berg
• Helen Elizabeth Soulsby
• Karthik Mahadevan
• Kate Parsley
• Ludovico Giannotti
• Meeta Luthra · trustee of 1 other charity
• Tania Bookallil
• Tracey King
• Zain Abid Yusuf

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AYLESBURY WOMEN'S AID.

• AYLESBURY WOMEN'S AID income £1.1m
• STAFFORDSHIRE WOMEN'S AID income £2.0m
• SOUTH LIVERPOOL DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES income £235k
• TRAFFORD DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES income £3.1m
• JEWISH WOMENS AID LIMITED income £1.5m
• IMECE WOMEN'S CENTRE income £995k

Side by side with its peers

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