WANTAGE INDEPENDENT ADVICE CENTRE
Registered charity 1161144 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Vale Community Impact, WIAC
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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a deficit of £27,253 and held unrestricted reserves of £162,271. The trustees' report notes that the charity aims to maintain an unrestricted reserve equivalent to 12 months of running costs. The financial statements were subject to an independent examination rather than a full audit.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: 12 months running costs (held: £162k)
“The Trustees aim to set aside an unrestricted reserve of 12 months running costs to be regularly reviewed and adjusted for any changing liabilities.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
Funders the charity credits
Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).
- Vale of White Horse — “Vale of White Horse and Oxfordshire County Council may be considered our key funders” (source page)
- Oxfordshire County Council — “Vale of White Horse and Oxfordshire County Council may be considered our key funders” (source page)
- Wantage Town Council — “grants from Wantage and Faringdon Town Councils, Grove and several other Parish Councils also comprise a significant part of our funding str…” (source page)
- Faringdon Town Council — “grants from Wantage and Faringdon Town Councils, Grove and several other Parish Councils also comprise a significant part of our funding str…” (source page)
- Grove Parish Council — “grants from Wantage and Faringdon Town Councils, Grove and several other Parish Councils also comprise a significant part of our funding str…” (source page)
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (10/10/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (17/02/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Oxfordshire
Income and spending
Common questions
Is WANTAGE INDEPENDENT ADVICE CENTRE financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a deficit of £27,253 and held unrestricted reserves of £162,271. The trustees' report notes that the charity aims to maintain an unrestricted reserve equivalent to 12 months of running costs. The financial statements were subject to an independent examination rather than a full audit. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.
Who funds WANTAGE INDEPENDENT ADVICE CENTRE?
Funders whose own accounts filings name WANTAGE INDEPENDENT ADVICE CENTRE as a grant recipient include MOTABILITY, THE ADRIAN SWIRE CHARITABLE TRUST, THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. PETER AND ST. PAUL WANTAGE.
Known funders
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