Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 5

Support Score: 0

Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
No PartB

12+ Trustees: -1
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Large volunteer base +3

Overall GiG Score: 3

WANTAGE INDEPENDENT ADVICE CENTRE

Advice. Free, confidential advice from trained volunteers on a range of topics, debt, benefits, employment/consumer rights & many more.Transport Scheme. Volunteer drivers take elderly and infirm people to various destinations including hospital, doctors, shopping & Day Centres.Good Neighbour Scheme. Volunteers visiting people in their own home to help with paperwork & to alleviate loneliness.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Why are there 13 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12?

Financial issues to consider:

Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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		£168	£214	£-46	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/22	*	£223	£198	£25	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/21		£330	£204	£127	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/20		£177	£183	£-5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/19		£180	£184	£-4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/18		£189	£168	£21	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/17		£159	£153	£6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/16		£129	£36	£92	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 10 years

www.vci.org.uk

help@vci.org.uk

01235765348

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

General Charitable Purposes

GiG Classification

Support for victims of domestic or sexual abuse
Emotional support, counselling or therapy

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Oxfordshire,

Who it helps

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
Co-Operative Group - Grant to WIAC T/A Vale Community Impact
£1,183	21/10/2023	With our team of incredible volunteers, we wish to continue to bring people together to help vulnerable individuals and families access food parcels, organise 'hardship shops', and offer debt advice.
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Befriending to rebuild confidence and offer purpose
£2,000	09/12/2021	1)It will be used to extend the hours of a Community Advice Liaison staff member so that the overall scheme is managed responsibly and neither clients nor volunteers need feel burdened or concerned by governance or accountability. 2)will enable ....more 1)It will be used to extend the hours of a Community Advice Liaison staff member so that the overall scheme is managed responsibly and neither clients nor volunteers need feel burdened or concerned by governance or accountability. 2)will enable recruitment of and training of a volunteer assessor (ideally 2) to join the VCI team. 3) will be used to survey the potential service users to ensure the true and tailored needs can be met by the project deliverables. 4) will help to effectively communicate & collaborate with smaller grass-root groups within the various villages, the churches ie Anna chaplains & community development leaders, social prescribers for better wellbeing initiatives, HomeInstead, AgeUK's Community Link Workers, local care-agencies etc 5)contribute towards venue hires for the village gatherings as well as costs associated with the hire ie tasks from a village hall hirer's agreement, catering, activities 6)publicity to target the relevant audience for those who may be interested in one on one, small group or village gatherings 7)improvement to VCI's client relationship management software (Bluedoor Caseworker Connect) to underpin the enhanced service offering and better support the existing befriending service provided 8)recruit volunteer befrienders, volunteer contributors to group or gathering events, volunteer shoppers and volunteer drivers to assist with the access the groups or gatherings 9)contribution towards volunteer expenses reimbursement 10) hardship fund - towards the transport fare to cover volunteer expenses as there might be a contribution to the gathering on occasion, SUMup equipment & pre-purchase of shopping vouchers m

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (13)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 12/13 persons

CHRISTINE WALTERS CLLR Appointed: 2019

CHRISTOPHER JOHN WARWICK Appointed: 2019

DR DAVID WISE Appointed: 2016

GRAHAM BEITH (Chair) Appointed: 2017

HELEN BAILEY Appointed: 2017

IAN GRIFFITHS Appointed: 2018

JENNY HANNABY Appointed: 2016

JASON BROCKBANK-GASH Appointed: 2023

JOHN LEGGOTT Appointed: 2022

KIMBERLY ANNE MORGAN CLLR Appointed: 2019

LAURA HUBBARD Appointed: 2023

RONALD MICHAEL BATSTONE Appointed: 2019

TOBY PHILLIPS Appointed: 2023

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 01/04/2015, number: 1161144

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Event History

17/02/2017 - Asset transfer in from THE INDEPENDENT ADVICE CENTRE SERVING WANTAGE GROVE AND DISTRICT
10/10/2024 - Asset transfer in from WANTAGE ROTARY CLUB TRUST FUND

Other Regulators

Financial Conduct Authority

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
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

8 returns made; AR22: 2 days late,

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from WANTAGE ROTARY CLUB TRUST FUND on 10/10/2024

Main office

Wantage Independent Advice Centre
T/A Vale Community Impact
16 Market Place
WANTAGE
OX12 8AE

Objectives

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO ISTHE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED, FOR ANY REASON INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, SOCIAL EXCLUSION.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE 'SOCIAL EXCLUSION' MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE;ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHINIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS; CRIME (EITHER AS VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY).THE OBJECT WILL BE MET BY THE PROVISION OF SERVICES AS SET OUT BELOW FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE VALE OF WHITE HORSE AREA1. AN ADVICE AND INFORMATION SERVICE2. A TRANSPORT SERVICE3. A GOOD NEIGHBOUR SERVICE4. OTHER SERVICES, PROVIDED FROM TIME TO TIME, WHICH ARE DEEMED APPROPRIATE AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATED CHARITABLE OBJECTIVE.

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