ADVOCACY MATTERS LTD

Registered charity 1148198 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ADVOCACY MATTERS

Provision of Advocacy for vulnerable people.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £36,150 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted reserves standing at £725,055. The trustees consider these free reserves to be adequate, noting that the policy target is to maintain between three and six months of expenditure. The accounts were subject to independent examination rather than audit, with no material uncertainties or governance failures disclosed.

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 5 of 6 completeness components.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~14.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 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: 0.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/04/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JENNY STECKLESchair
• GORDON LAW · trustee of 1 other charity
• Naomi Campbell
• Robert Netherway
• Robert Punton
• Tharanjit Biring

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Walsall

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

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