INDEPENDENT ADVOCACY NORTH EAST

Registered charity 1148607 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as IANT, INDEPENDENT ADVOCACY NORTH TYNESIDE

The charity aim and mission statement is 'to enable the voices of vulnerable people in North Tyneside to be heard, through the provision of a range of independent advocacy services, tailored to the needs of the individual'. The main objectives and activities focus on the provision of case advocacy and citizen advocacy.

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 · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit on unrestricted funds of £7,940 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £90,385. The trustees note that this level of unrestricted funds falls short of their stated policy target of six months' normal expenditure. Despite the deficit, the charity maintains positive net assets of £107,737 and the trustees confirm the organization is a going concern.

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07949689

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• COGLE, Derek — director, appointed 07/10/2025on trustee list
• BLIGHT, David, Mr. — director, appointed 26/11/2024on trustee list
• WOOLMORE, Jonathan Mark — director, appointed 25/10/2022not on trustee list
• FISHER, Emma — director, appointed 22/02/2022on trustee list
• BARROW, Jonathan Mark — director, appointed 21/10/2019on trustee list
• ERRINGTON, Dennis James — director, appointed 16/10/2013on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/09/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Blight
• Dennis Errington
• Derek Cogle · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emma Louise Fisher
• Jon Woolmore
• Mark Barrow

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

Operates in: North Tyneside

Income and spending

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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).