Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 4

Support Score: 4

No PartB

Narrow trustee age band: -2
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +1

Overall GiG Score: 8

PADDOCK WOOD COMMUNITY ADVICE CENTRE

Paddock Wood Community Advice Centre has been set up to promote any charitable purpose for the public benefit by the advancement of education, the protection and preservation of health and the relief of poverty, sickness and distress. PWCAC provides confidential, impartial, independent, face-to-face advice and information without charge, from the charity's community advice centre in Paddock Wood.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board has little diversity in terms of age
Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Established: 12 years

pwadvice.org

info@pwadvice.org

01892838619

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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	£49	£34	£14	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	14
31/03/22	£48	£39	£9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	14
31/03/21	£60	£46	£15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	14
31/03/20	£43	£36	£6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	15
31/03/19	£31	£37	£-6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	15
31/03/18	£41	£22	£19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	£30	£20	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	£31	£15	£16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	£25	£20	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	£25	£17	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	£27	£9	£17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

General Charitable Purposes
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information

Where it operates

East Sussex, Kent,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
14 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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Paddock Wood Community Advice Centre
£10,000	13/03/2019 24	towards two years' running costs of a project providing support and advice to disadvantaged people in Kent
National Lottery Community Fund - Advice Quality Audit Standard
£3,837	28/06/2018 12	The project will continue to run an advice service providing support on debt and welfare and guidance for people within the local community.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 54-68

ALISON NICOLA CAIN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Broker

DAVID RITCHIE Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Chartered Accountant

MARTIN PENGELLEY Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Director

SARAH ANN HAMILTON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired

ROBERT JOHN MACHELL Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Barrister

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 25/06/2012, number: 1147816
Registered at Companies House on 26/03/2012, number: 08006468

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

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
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Investment
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

11 returns made; all on time

Main office

94 Commercial Road
Paddock Wood
Tonbridge
Kent
TN12 6DP

Objectives

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT WITHOUT LIMITATION, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY OF PADDOCK WOOD AND SURROUNDING AREAS

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