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Registered charity · Somerset

Swan Advocacy Network

The objects for which the Company is established are: a) the relief of those in need, by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship, or other disadvantage in particular but not exclusively by the delivery of advocacy, money...

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £3.2m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Disability, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Somerset, Wiltshire, Bath And North East Somerset
Website
www.swanadvocacy.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Swan Advocacy Network
Registered
2008

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.2m£3.0m
  • 2024£3.0m£2.8m
  • 2023£2.1m£2.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.7m£1.6m
  • 2021£1.6m£1.4m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 96%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

The objects for which the Company is established are: a) the relief of those in need, by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship, or other disadvantage in particular but not exclusively by the delivery of advocacy, money management and debt counselling and b) the advancement of education in particular but not exclusively through the delivery of self-advocacy training and end of life planning andc) the advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation or the promotion of religious or racial harmony or equality and diversity in particular but not exclusively by the provision of statutory advocacy and victim support services.Primarily, but not solely, in counties across the South West of England or adjoining the South West.

Grants received

11 grants · £784,298 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

5 trustees on the board

3.2y median 2y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

4
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Disability 5General Charitable Purposes 5Other Charitable Purposes 5

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 4

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£3.2m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

4.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.6 in 2021

109 from 60 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1125679
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 21 MAY 2008 as amended on 29 May 2018 as amended on 07 Sep 2021 as amended on 18 Aug 2021
Companies House
Company number 06599429 · Active
Contact on the register
03333447928 · Accounts@swanadvocacy.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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