SOUTH ESSEX ADVOCACY SERVICES

Registered charity 1164092 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SEEAFOP, SOUTH EAST ESSEX ADVOCACY FOR OLDER PEOPLE

Provision of Advocacy services for all eligible persons age over 18 who are a resident of Southend on Sea. Advocacy services provided: Care Act, IMCA, PRPR, IMHA, NHS Complaints, Child Protection(parent) and Citizen/General.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE IN NEED, INCLUDING THE ELDERLY, WITHIN THE SOUTH EAST ESSEX AREA BY THE PROVISION OF AN ADVOCACY SERVICE, GOODS OR SERVICES.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · 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 income of £35,391 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds carried forward of £248,478. The trustees' report confirms that the charity aims to maintain a minimum of six months of unrestricted expenditure as its reserves policy target. Per the balance sheet, unrestricted funds stood at £133,478, which is above the stated policy minimum.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/12/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Paula Whittlechair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Keith Davidson
• Marcia Carr
• NIRMAL GUPTA MBE · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Essex · Southend-on-sea

Income and spending

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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 SEFTON ADVOCACY.

• SEFTON ADVOCACY income £450k
• ADVOCACY FOR ALL income £1.4m
• ADVOCACY FOCUS income £2.6m
• SOUTHEND ON SEA GUILD OF HELP AND CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.5m
• SERVICES FOR EMPOWERMENT AND ADVOCACY income £55k
• SOUTHEND ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTARY SERVICES income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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