CHEETHAM HILL ADVICE CENTRE

Registered charity 1136328 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHAC

We provide a culturally and linguistically appropriate legal advice service for the residents of Manchester, particularly in the wards of Cheetham and Crumpsall. We provide quality assured advice in the social welfare legal categories of welfare benefits, debt, housing, and immigration (level one). We support residents to access other local services and run a volunteer development programme.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF RESIDENTS OF THE CITY OF MANCHESTER, BUT PRIMARILY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN CHEETHAM AND CRUMPSALL, AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE FURTHERANCE OF HEALTH, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS, AND SICKNESS.

Area of benefit: CHEETHAM AND CRUMPSALL

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

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

Registered contact address: Manchester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity helped 1,435 people with 4,051 issues, an increase of 23% compared to the previous year. The organization received accreditation as a Real Living Wage employer and continues to operate as part of a successful citywide advice partnership. No financial figures or reserves data are provided in the submitted text.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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.

• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Manchester City Council — “Our advice services are funded by Manchester City Council” (source page)
• The Peter Kershaw Trust — “Volunteer Expenses are funded by The Peter Kershaw Trust.” (source page)

Trustees · trustee networks

• SARAH SEDGEchair
• ANDREW GRIDLEY
• Guy Johnson
• Jane Eberhart
• KHOULOUD AZZOUNI
• MR Amer Salam
• Mary Atkinson
• Mohammed Dawud Ahmed Ali
• REV Sarah Fletcher
• Rev HERBERT MCKENZIE

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

Operates in: Manchester City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 CITIZENS ADVICE WORCESTER AND HEREFORDSHIRE.

• CITIZENS ADVICE WORCESTER AND HEREFORDSHIRE income £2.2m
• COMMUNITY LAW SERVICE(NORTHAMPTON AND COUNTY) income £1.4m
• SOUTHWARK LAW CENTRE income £2.7m

Side by side with its peers

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