ADVOCACY ALLIANCE

Registered charity 1163787 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Advocacy Alliance provides free, independent advocacy support to individuals on a one to one basis.The organisation recruits trains and supports members of the community to become volunteer advocates.Advocacy Alliance provides safeguarding training to vulnerable people

Objects

TO PROMOTE, ASSIST AND DEVELOP THE REPRESENTATION OF ALL PEOPLE IN NEED OF SUCH HELP BY VIRTUE OF THEIR AGE, VULNERABILITY CAUSED BY AUTISM OR ANOTHER HEALTH ISSUE , MENTAL HEALTH, PHYSICAL OR LEARNING DISABILITY TO HELP THEM OVERCOME ANY DISADVANTAGE THAT FLOWS FROM THEIR PERSONAL CIRCUMSTANCES, BY THE PROVISION OF A SERVICE DESIGNED TO :-PROMOTE, ASSIST AND DEVELOP THE PROVISION OF ADVOCACY AND RELATED SERVICES FOR THOSE PEOPLE IN NEED OF SUCH SUPPORT. ADVOCACY IS TAKING ACTION TO HELP PEOPLE SAY WHAT THEY WANT, SECURE THEIR RIGHTS, REPRESENT THEIR INTERESTS AND OBTAIN THE SERVICES THEY NEED. ADVOCACY ALLIANCE DOES THIS BY RECRUITING, TRAINING AND SUPPORTING ADVOCATES (INCLUDING VOLUNTEERS) IN THE COMMUNITY TO PROVIDE AN INDEPENDENT AND CONFIDENTIAL ADVOCACY SERVICE, IN A ONE TO ONE OR GROUP SETTING. ADVOCACY ALLIANCE PROMOTES SOCIAL INCLUSION, EQUALITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE AS BEFITTING ALL INDIVIDUALS' PRIVILEGES AS A CITIZEN.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £34,431 for the year ended 31st March 2025, with total funds increasing to £200,543. Per the trustees' report, the charity is considered sustainable, although it notes a reliance on grants and is actively seeking to develop new income streams to reduce this dependency. The trustees confirmed the charity can continue as a going concern, supported by unrestricted funds of £58,956.

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.

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
• 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
• 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

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/02/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Angela McKeown
• Ben Anthony Joseph Sellers
• Callum Walker
• Dr Sam Woods-Peel
• HELEN PATRICIA FORTNUM
• Patricia Ann Kemp
• STEVE ARNOTT

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

Operates in: City Of York · East Riding Of Yorkshire · Middlesbrough · North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• ADVOCACY FOR ALL income £1.4m
• ADVOCACY FOCUS income £2.6m
• THE ADVOCACY ACADEMY income £1.1m
• THE HERITAGE ALLIANCE income £505k
• FREEDOM COMMUNITY ALLIANCE LIMITED income £1.3m
• THE ADVICE SERVICES ALLIANCE income £149k

Side by side with its peers

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