SWAN ADVOCACY NETWORK

Registered charity 1125679 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SWAN

Provides independent advocacy; independent mental health advocacy; and independent mental capacity advocacy to adults who meet referral criteria and who live in the counties of Wiltshire (excluding Swindon), Bath and North East Somerset

Objects

The objects for which the Company is established are: a) the relief of those in need, by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship, or other disadvantage in particular but not exclusively by the delivery of advocacy, money management and debt counselling and b) the advancement of education in particular but not exclusively through the delivery of self-advocacy training and end of life planning andc) the advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation or the promotion of religious or racial harmony or equality and diversity in particular but not exclusively by the provision of statutory advocacy and victim support services.Primarily, but not solely, in counties across the South West of England or adjoining the South West.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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 · Disability · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £183,433 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £1,003,217. Per the trustees' report, these free reserves exceed the stated policy target of three months' forecast running costs (£688,653), a surplus attributed to an unexpected donation and retained excess reserves despite a forecast deficit for the year. The auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified 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 A C Mole LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Claire Tough — Chair of the Board of Trustees (source)
• Matt Wall — Treasurer (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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/12/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Claire Haskins
• Emma Dowie
• Matt Wall
• Peter Harding
• Richard Davies

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Somerset · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SWINDON ADVOCACY MOVEMENT.

• SWINDON ADVOCACY MOVEMENT income £649k
• CITIZENS ADVICE SWANSEA NEATH PORT TALBOT LIMITED income £1.4m
• SWAN (SOUTHERN WOMEN'S AID NETWORK) income £1.3m
• CONWY AND DENBIGHSHIRE MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY SERVICE LTD income £1.3m
• Swansea Bay University LHB Charitable Fund and Other Related Charities income £1.4m
• ADVOCACY SERVICES NORTH EAST WALES income £622k

Side by side with its peers

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