ADVOCACY SERVICES NORTH EAST WALES

Registered charity 1110143 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FLINTSHIRE ADVOCACY SERVICES LTD, FLINTSHIRE MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY SERVICES, FMHAS

Provides information,advocacy and support to enable persons with mental health problems in North East Wales to obtain their full rights and privileges as citizens

Objects

THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS IN NORTH EAST WALES BY PROVIDING INFORMATION,ADVOCACY AND SUPPORT IN SUCH WAYS AS APPROPRIATE, IN ORDER TO ENABLE PERSONS WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS TO OBTAIN HIS OR HER FULL RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES AS CITIZENS

Area of benefit: FLINTSHIRE.

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that total funds decreased to £109,124 from £162,169 in the prior year, driven by a net expenditure exceeding income. The trustees' report notes that the charity plans to continue activities subject to satisfactory funding arrangements, while the independent examiner confirmed no matters came to attention requiring further disclosure.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lynn Roberts
• catherine lloyd-Williams
• charlotte atkins

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

Operates in: Denbighshire · Flintshire · Wrexham

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CONWY AND DENBIGHSHIRE MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY SERVICE LTD.

• CONWY AND DENBIGHSHIRE MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY SERVICE LTD income £1.3m
• Advocacy West Wales - Eiriolaeth Gorllewin Cymru income £842k
• ADVOCACY SUPPORT IN CYMRU LTD income £2.4m
• MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS WALES LIMITED income £1.6m
• ADVOCACY MATTERS (WALES) income £264k
• ADVOCACY FOCUS income £2.6m

Side by side with its peers

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