INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY ADVOCACY NETWORK NORTH (ICANN)

Registered charity 1200221 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

ICANN provide information and advocacy services across Lancashire. We support vulnerable people to give them a voice, empower, increase resilience, and improve their lives. Current projects include financial inclusion, advocacy for disability related benefits, in some areas we have a form filling service for benefits. ICANN also provide advocacy support at medical assessments, benefit tribunals

Objects

TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO HAVE LEARNING DIFFICULTIES, MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS, PHYSICAL DISABILITIES, VISUAL OR SENSORY IMPAIRMENT OR WHO MAY BE IN NEED OF RELIEF BY REASONS OF THEIR AGE, YOUTH OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES BY THE PROVISION OF AN EFFECTIVE ADVOCACY SERVICE PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN LANCASHIRE AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS

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 · 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 expenditure of £149,136 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £247,239 to £98,103. The trustees' report indicates that the charity maintains a reserves policy of holding three to six months of operating costs, with unrestricted funds currently at £98,103. The independent examiner confirmed that the accounts comply with relevant regulations and give a true and fair view.

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
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Aneesah Bana
• Lindsay O'Brien Barlow
• Michelle Anne Smith
• Pamela Hill
• Sophia Patel · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Blackburn With Darwen · Blackpool · Bolton · Cumbria · Lancashire · Manchester City · Scotland · Sefton · Trafford · Warrington · Wigan

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).