Advocacy West Wales - Eiriolaeth Gorllewin Cymru

Registered charity 1172200 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ADVOCACY WEST WALES

To relieve the effects of mental health problems, disadvantage and disengagement amongst those people living in West Wales and those areas of Wales commissioning advocacy in partnership with commissioners in West Wales , through the provision of a comprehensive independent advocacy service.

Objects

TO PROMOTE IMPROVED MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF PEOPLE OF ALL AGES LIVING IN WEST WALES, AND THOSE AREAS OF WALES COMMISSIONING ADVOCACY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH COMMISSIONERS IN WEST WALES, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF A RANGE OF SERVICES INCLUDING COMPREHENSIVE INDEPENDENT ADVOCACY, EDUCATION, TRAINING AND AWARENESS RAISING

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £841,713 with unrestricted reserves of £129,548. The charity reports that it expects a number of projects to end the year in deficit, noting that continuing as is won't be possible in the longer term without additional financial resource. The trustees confirm that no funds were in a deficit position as at the year end.

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 6 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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (97% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/11/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/10/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW WATTERS
• Daniel Adam Rosie
• Emlyn Sciavone
• Helen Butland
• Ursula Jane Kelso

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

Operates in: Carmarthenshire · Ceredigion · Pembrokeshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ADVOCACY SERVICES NORTH EAST WALES.

• ADVOCACY SERVICES NORTH EAST WALES income £622k
• ADVOCACY SUPPORT IN CYMRU LTD income £2.4m
• CONWY AND DENBIGHSHIRE MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY SERVICE LTD income £1.3m
• ADVOCACY MATTERS (WALES) income £264k
• MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS WALES LIMITED income £1.6m
• GWASANAETH ADFOCATIAETH A CHYNGHORI GOGLEDD CYMRU' income £371k

Side by side with its peers

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