Bolton Community Advice

Registered charity 1189587 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BOLTON ADVICE CENTRE

Bolton Advice Centre is a community-based charity which provides guidance, help, information or advice on a wide range of issues, including;Benefits,Disability,Housing issues,Homelessness,Advocacy and advice for people with sensory impairment or loss,Help for released offenders,Debt,Immigration issues,Poverty,

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE: TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS IN PARTICULAR, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN BOLTON AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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 · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a net expenditure of £3,858, resulting in total funds decreasing from £56,455 to £52,597. The trustees report that the charity ended on 'very low reserves' due to substantial increases in both turnover and expenditure. The charity remains heavily dependent on restricted grant income, with unrestricted funds standing at only £858.

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 4 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lauren McKechniechair
• Carrie Riley
• Jennifer Rudd
• Sandrine Beaunol

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

Operates in: Bolton

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 Citizens Advice Bury and Bolton Limited.

• Citizens Advice Bury and Bolton Limited income £2.1m
• HALTON CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.2m
• THE BOLTON GUILD OF HELP income £249k
• BOLTON CARERS SUPPORT income £377k
• BRIXTON ADVICE CENTRE income £350k
• BOLTON COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY SERVICES income £3.1m

Side by side with its peers

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