SHROPSHIRE PEER COUNSELLING AND ADVOCACY SERVICE

Registered charity 1187362 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PCAS

We provide independent advocacy to any adult with any disability including multiple disabilities and complex needs. We help any age from 18 upwards including older people, any ethnicity, any gender, any sexual orientation. We work in Shropshire including Telford & Wrekin, offering: Short, Medium and Long-Term help.

Objects

TO RELIEVE DISABLED PERSONS PRIMARILY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, LIVING OR WORKING WITHIN SHROPSHIRE AND POWYS, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION, ADVOCACY, PEER COUNSELLING AND BEFRIENDING.

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

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves were £64,651 at year-end, with £40,000 designated for operating costs if funding ceases. The manager's report highlights that the charity is in a critical survival phase as grant funding expires in November 2025, with sustainability plans yet to be secured.

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
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — PCAS (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/01/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Doreen Ellis
• Neil Gwynne Pulker
• Russell Jones

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

Operates in: Powys · Shropshire · Telford & Wrekin

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 AGE UK SHROPSHIRE TELFORD & WREKIN.

• AGE UK SHROPSHIRE TELFORD & WREKIN income £2.9m
• ADVOCACY FOR ALL income £1.4m
• CITIZENS ADVICE SHROPSHIRE income £1.2m
• SERVICES FOR EMPOWERMENT AND ADVOCACY income £55k
• SOUTH ESSEX ADVOCACY SERVICES income £411k
• SEFTON ADVOCACY income £450k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.