Finance Score: 6

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 2

Good reserves management: +3
Fundraising costs low: +3

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +2

Overall GiG Score: 17

ADVOCACY FOCUS

Free, confidential and independent advocacy support for vulnerable people to take part in decisions relating to their health and social care. The charity delivers a range of services including training, statutory mental health and mental capacity advocacy & general advocacy support for issues relating to health & social care in particular for those whose primary issues relate to mental health.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit £k	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23		£2,109	£2,071	£37	£1	£814	£814	4.7	60	26
31/03/22		£1,805	£1,858	£-52	£0	£808	£808	5.2	56	28
31/03/21		£1,702	£1,750	£-48	£0	£828	£828	5.7	58	30
31/03/20	*	£1,690	£1,817	£-127	£9	£878	£878	5.8	63	26
31/03/19		£1,630	£1,618	£12	£0	£1,008	£1,008	7.5	57	26
31/03/18		£1,428	£1,333	£94	£0	£995	£995	9	45	0
31/03/17		£1,446	£1,207	£240	£0	£893	£893	8.9	43	0
31/03/16		£1,004	£866	£138	£0	£653	£646	9	30	0
31/03/15	*	£717	£667	£49	£3	£507	£501	9	24	0
31/03/14		£708	£690	£18	£4	£455	£435	7.6	20	0
31/03/13		£599	£566	£33	£7	£437	£411	8.7	16	0
31/03/12		£618	£683	£-65	£6	£403	£392	6.9	15	0
31/03/11		£671	£635	£37	£5	£468	£443	8.4	15	0
31/03/10		£687	£564	£123	£5	£431	£306	6.5	13	0
31/03/09		£538	£487	£51	£6	£308	£216	5.3	13	0
31/03/08		£543	£447	£96	£8	£258	£191	5.1	15	0
31/03/07		£302	£276	£26	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/06		£252	£260	£-8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/05		£232	£227	£5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/04		£277	£255	£21	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.1%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 9%
Liabilities/Income: 4%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 4.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 4.9

Asset Split ?

Balance Sheet History

Established: 23 years

www.advocacyfocus.org.uk

admin@advocacyfocus.org.uk

03003230965

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Disability
Education/Training
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

Specialty hospitals (incl psychiatric and substance abuse)

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides human resources

Where it operates

Lancashire, Salford City, St Helens, Trafford,

Who it helps

Elderly/Old People
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Focus Hub
£10,000	23/09/2022	The funding will be used to set up a community focus hub to increase access to support and increase community engagement with the aim of creating a place where local people can get face to face ....more The funding will be used to set up a community focus hub to increase access to support and increase community engagement with the aim of creating a place where local people can get face to face advocacy evaluate and address local need and co-design solutions to improve access to support at community level.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 32-63

CHRISTOPHER LINTERN Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Managing Director

DENISE BOND Appointed: 2009, Occupation: Solicitor

DEAN RODGERS Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Treasurer

KAREN MARIA CHRISTIE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Trustee

MUJAHID IBRAHIM WAHAB Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Trustee

PAUL STEPHEN CARROLL Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Trustee

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 12/04/2001, number: 1086151
Registered at Companies House on 03/01/2001, number: 04135225

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

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
Investment
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

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR20: 73 days late, AR15: 27 days late,

Main office

Advocacy Focus
6-7 Mercury Rise
Altham Business Park,Altham
ACCRINGTON
Lancashire
BB5 5BY

Objectives

4 The charity?s objects (?Objects?) are specifically restricted to the following:For the public benefit, the relief and assistance of people who are disadvantaged by illness, disability, age, sexual orientation or social exclusion within England, via the provision, promotion and accessibility of high quality independent advocacy and its associated services. The charity will promote wider social inclusion for the public benefit, by supporting and enabling people to represent themselves in health and social care matters, obtain appropriate services and increase their life quality and choices.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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