Finance Score: -2

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 12

Low unrestricted reserves: -2

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

Grant maker support: +12

Overall GiG Score: 16

ADVONET

Advonet exists to ensure everyone can have their needs heard and their rights respected. It both delivers services directly and promotes independent advocacy provided by partners in Leeds and the surrounding area. Advonet will work to strengthen and empower, individuals, families and communities. Advonet will champion and inspire positive change in service provision.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
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

Financial issues to consider:

Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23	*	£2,136	£2,238	£-102	£0	£647	£553	3	83	50
31/03/22		£2,083	£2,066	£17	£0	£750	£667	3.9	80	50
31/03/21		£1,948	£1,939	£9	£0	£732	£652	4	80	85
31/03/20		£2,021	£1,925	£95	£0	£723	£578	3.6	80	126
31/03/19		£1,717	£1,693	£24	£0	£628	£483	3.4	71	111
31/03/18	*	£1,695	£1,638	£57	£0	£604	£490	3.6	75	0
31/03/17		£1,639	£1,570	£69	£0	£547	£444	3.4	68	0
31/03/16	*	£2,063	£1,711	£352	£0	£478	£372	2.6	65	0
31/03/15		£1,055	£1,080	£-25	£39	£126	£25	0.3	11	0
31/03/14		£1,093	£1,020	£72	£4	£151	£36	0.4	7	0
31/03/13		£85	£84	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£84	£76	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	*	£104	£91	£13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	*	£97	£87	£11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 40%
Liabilities/Income: 20%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 85%
Reserves/Spending: 3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 1.6

Asset Split ?

Established: 16 years
(22 years as a company)

www.advonet.org.uk

office@advonet.org.uk

01132440606

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Disability
Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Grant-making foundations

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides human resources
Provides services

Where it operates

Kirklees, Leeds City,

Who it helps

Elderly/Old People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
Other Defined Groups
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

83 employees
50 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years

Comic Relief	£424,436
National Lottery Community Fund	£357,429
Leeds Community Foundation	£49,819
Cabinet Office	£30,972

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Leeds Community Foundation - Autism Mental Health Access
£49,819	13/02/2024 12	Grant to Advonet
National Lottery Community Fund - Leeds Autism AIM: Autism Mentoring and Peer Support Development
£159,318	27/10/2021	The funding will be used to support autistic adults in Leeds through mentoring and peer support activities. The project will recruit train and support volunteer autism mentors who will be carefully ....more The funding will be used to support autistic adults in Leeds through mentoring and peer support activities. The project will recruit train and support volunteer autism mentors who will be carefully matched to autistic adults to provide one to one support for up to 18 months with support taking place in people’s homes at Advonet hubs in Leeds or online. The beneficiaries of this element of the project are likely to be individuals who are most isolated who struggle to access activities in the wider community and who require more long term support to be able to set and achieve goals and to develop self-advocacy skills. Some volunteer autism mentors will be autistic themselves and bring valuable lived experience.
Comic Relief - Autism AIM Yorkshire
£424,436	25/05/2021 48	Advonet are an advocacy organisation supporting innovative approaches to enabling the voice of the most disadvantaged to be heard and their rights to be met. Leeds Autism AIM is part of Advonet and ....more Advonet are an advocacy organisation supporting innovative approaches to enabling the voice of the most disadvantaged to be heard and their rights to be met. Leeds Autism AIM is part of Advonet and has developed user led services for autistic adults with little or no formal support. It has a focus on increasing access to services and ensuring autistic adults are heard . The AIM service has proven the effectiveness of enabling autistic developed and led services: peer support, post diagnostic support, resources to put forward needs , training for mental health /wider services and facilitating an autistic voice in health/ mental health planning or consultations to facilitate lasting change locally. Regional services have expressed interest in similar models of autistic led support, particularly around addressing necessary changes in mental health provision. This is a priority area identified in local/ national consultations with autistic people . We know that autistic people have higher mental ill health ,with over half reporting at least one comorbid disorder. Autistic adults without learning disabilities still often fall through gaps in services. This has not improved over 10 years of the Autism Act and new approaches are needed to take action on creating positive change, particularly in this post Covid-19 period. We will further develop innovative approaches to meet regional needs : ? Enabling engagement with local autistic communities: building skills/ empowering to have a stronger voice influencing necessary changes . ? Seconded health role to follow up consultation routes, ensuring suggested changes are heard/ acted on, linking to the WYHHCP #autismallies work ? Peer support adapted to autistic needs to empower autistic adults with self -management/ self- advocacy strategies. ? Testing/ developing personalised resources to enable autistic adults to put forward their needs. ? User led autism training for social prescribing/ local advocacy services
National Lottery Community Fund - LGBT+ Inclusion
£198,111	25/01/2021 36	The project is using funding to develop and deliver self-advocacy workshops training for health professionals and peer support which will benefit LGBTQ+ people living in West Yorkshire who are ....more The project is using funding to develop and deliver self-advocacy workshops training for health professionals and peer support which will benefit LGBTQ+ people living in West Yorkshire who are autistic or who have a learning disability. The project aims to address exclusion experienced by LGBTQ+ people who are autistic or who have a learning disability and to enable them to connect more effectively with the wider LGBTQ+ community.
Cabinet Office - Advonet - LGBT self-advocacy grant
£30,972	01/04/2020	As part of the LGBT Health Grant Scheme, Advonet in partnership with MESMAC and CHANGE, will develop a project on improving the self-advocacy of LGBT individuals with autism, learning disability or ....more As part of the LGBT Health Grant Scheme, Advonet in partnership with MESMAC and CHANGE, will develop a project on improving the self-advocacy of LGBT individuals with autism, learning disability or mental health problems who have additional barriers of access to health and social care.
Leeds Community Foundation - Grant to Advonet
£4,967	16/10/2018 3	Our Winter project will complement both our advocacy service's work with people from BME communities for whom English isn't their first language and our GP advocacy navigators.
National Lottery Community Fund - Leeds Autism AIM
£199,950	23/03/2018 36	The group will provide support and information for autistic adults who receive little or no funded support. This will reduce isolation and loneliness and increase access to local services, as well as ....more The group will provide support and information for autistic adults who receive little or no funded support. This will reduce isolation and loneliness and increase access to local services, as well as improving employment prospects, which will improve mental health and wellbeing.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (11)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 10/11 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 35-74

EDWARD LONG Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Head Of Finance

MAU YIP Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Housing Officer

SUE GILL Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Charity Manager

CLLR PETER JOHN GRUEN Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Councillor

CLLR SHARON BURKE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Councillor, Other trusteeships: AMBASSADORS OF CHRIST (GLOBAL), HUNSLET RUGBY FOUNDATION, THE JAMES BURKE FOUNDATION, SOUTH LEEDS WELCOME CENTRE,

EMMA VICTORIA WILLIAMS Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Chartered Accountant

IVAN NIP Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Engineer

KIRTI TANDEL Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Senior Data Architect

RALPH PORTER Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Retired

REINHARD BECK Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Administration

WILLIAM CASE Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Independent Disability Consultant

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/10/2008, number: 1126132
Registered at Companies House on 06/06/2001, number: 04229975

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Event History

21/06/2017 - Asset transfer in from LEEDS ADVOCACY
10/02/2023 - Asset transfer in from CHANGE (AN ORGANISATION FOR PEOPLE WITH BOTH A LEARNING DISABILITY AND A SENSORY IMPAIRMENT)

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
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

14 returns made; AR23: 7 days late, AR18: 30 days late, AR16: 1 days late, AR11: 19 days late, AR10: 24 days late,

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from CHANGE (AN ORGANISATION FOR PEOPLE WITH BOTH A LEARNING DISABILITY AND A SENSORY IMPAIRMENT) on 10/02/2023

Main office

ADVONET
UNITY BUSINESS CENTRE
26 ROUNDHAY ROAD
LEEDS
LS7 1AB

Objectives

TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND SICKNESS AND PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH OF THE PUBLIC IRRESPECTIVE OF RACE, CULTURE, GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RELIGIOUS BELIEFS, AGE OR DISABILITY, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:A) PROMOTING AWARENESS AND UNDERSTANDING OF ADVOCACY PRACTICE;B) SUPPORTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF ADVOCACY SERVICES;C) THE PROVISION OF A CONTACT POINT FOR PEOPLE WHO NEED ADVOCACY SUPPORT OR HELP;D) THE PROVISION OF ADVOCACY SERVICES IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND;E) THE DEVELOPMENT, CO-ORDINATION AND FACILITATION OF TRAINING AND EDUCATION ON ADVOCACY AND ISSUES RELEVANT TO ADVOCACY.F) THE DEVELOPMENT AND PROMOTION OF GOOD PRACTICE STANDARDS FOR ADVOCACY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LOCAL

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