ADVICE UK

Registered charity 299342 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity operates as a co-ordination and support network for organisations that provide social welfare law advice to the public.

Objects

TO PROMOTE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED INCLUDING THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING CO-ORDINATION AND SUPPORT TO INDEPENDENT ADVICE SERVICES AND BY ASSISTING THEM TO MAKE BETTER USE OF THE RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO THEM.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that AdviceUK reported a group deficit of £362,860 for the year ended 31 March 2026, driven by increased expenditure and underperformance of investments. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds decreased to £2,170,337, while the charity maintains a stated free reserve policy target of £252,407, which it currently exceeds. The auditor confirmed the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Audit Co. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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 vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 16/05/2024, 106 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02023982

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• ENDERSBY, Fiona — director, appointed 21/05/2026on trustee list
• HAFEEZ, Atif — director, appointed 29/01/2026on trustee list
• JESSOP, Naomi — director, appointed 27/11/2025on trustee list
• CLARK, Lisa — director, appointed 04/04/2025on trustee list
• DRONFIELD, Matthew Stewart — director, appointed 04/04/2025on trustee list
• WHITE, Christopher — director, appointed 20/07/2023on trustee list
• SOMBU, Nathaniel Terver — director, appointed 20/07/2023on trustee list
• GREENWOOD, Victoria Ann — director, appointed 25/11/2021on trustee list
• IPYANA, Jawanza Ruhani — director, appointed 15/07/2021on trustee list
• QUINN, Anthony — director, appointed 15/07/2021on trustee list
• BADESHA, Baljit — director, appointed 26/07/2007not on trustee list
• BAYRAM, Liz — secretary, appointed 26/09/2023

Official officers record.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~4.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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: 1.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANTHONY QUINN
• Atif Hafeez
• BALJIT BASHEDA
• Christopher White
• Fiona Endersby
• JAWANZA IPYANA
• Lisa Clark
• Matthew Stewart Dronfield · trustee of 1 other charity
• Naomi Jessop
• Nathaniel Sombu
• Victoria Greenwood

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 THE ADVICE SERVICES ALLIANCE.

• THE ADVICE SERVICES ALLIANCE income £149k
• DISS, THETFORD AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £733k
• BRIDPORT AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £292k
• MID SUFFOLK CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £342k
• DEBT ADVICE FOUNDATION income £412k
• CITIZENS ADVICE HILLINGDON LTD income £682k

Side by side with its peers

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