THE ADVICE SERVICES ALLIANCE

Registered charity 1112627 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ASA

To promote voluntary sector advice services by providing members services, support and assistance, to enable advice organisations to provide high quality services and the public to access those services, by promoting cooperation between voluntary sector advice organisations, statutory authorities and other bodies. To advance education of the public through the development of high quality advice.

Objects

(1) to promote for the benefit of the public the parts of the Voluntary Sector which provide advice services by providing training, services, support and assistance to enable Voluntary Sector advice organisations to provide high quality advice services and the public to access those services and by promoting co-operation between Voluntary Sector advice organisations and statutory authorities and other bodies; (2) to advance education for the benefit of the public in particular by the development of high quality advice services and by the provision of educational material including educational resources relating to advice services and an information service on the internet.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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 · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net deficit of £5,825 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in accumulated unrestricted reserves from £125,663 to £119,838. Per the trustees' report, free reserves of £74,838 remain in excess of the upper range of the stated reserves policy target of £55,000. The charity is not required to be audited and has undergone an independent examination with no matters requiring attention.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alasdair Stewart
• Cassandra Harrison
• Cllr Ruth Hayes · trustee of 5 other charities
• Dr James Sandbach · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Taylan Sahbaz
• EDLIRA ALKU
• JULIE BISHOP
• John Roberts
• Kani Jelisa Kundu
• MARTIN MICHAEL BARNES
• Sabrina Dubash

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• ADVICE UK income £6.0m
• THE ASSOCIATION OF CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS income £161k
• THE RESOURCE ALLIANCE LIMITED income £1.6m
• THE ASSOCIATION OF DIRECTORS OF ADULT SOCIAL SERVICES income £3.3m
• THE CHARITY FINANCE GROUP income £2.0m
• CITIZENS ADVICE GATESHEAD income £7.2m

Side by side with its peers

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