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Registered charity · Sutton Coldfield

Advocacy Matters LTD

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £659k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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

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About

What it does
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing and 1 more
Where
Birmingham City, Walsall
Website
www.advocacymatters.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Advocacy Matters LTD
Registered
2012

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£659k£623k
  • 2024£758k£661k
  • 2023£664k£657k
Earlier years
  • 2022£674k£479k
  • 2021£573k£413k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 99%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL SICKNESS OF PERSONS IN NEED BY REASON OF ADDICTION, BEREAVEMENT OR LOSS, AND TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE, WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY AND IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE, BY THE PROVISION OF AN ADVOCACY SERVICE IN THE COUNTIES OF WEST MIDLANDS, WARWICKSHIRE, WORCESTERSHIRE, STAFFORDSHIRE AND HEREFORDSHIRE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE, ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY OR PARTS OF SOCIETY AS A RESULT OF ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH AND OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH, (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY, INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS, DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER REASSIGNMENT; POOR EDUCATION OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS); CRIME (IE. EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY).2. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN PARTICULAR TRAINING IN ADVOCACY SKILLS AND DISABILITY ISSUES THROUGHOUT THE UK

Grants received

8 grants · £354,442 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £115,4012024-04-25
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £8,2012023-01-13
  • CAF £166,1452021-11-05
  • Garfield Weston Foundation £20,0002021-08-20
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,8002021-05-27
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.

6 trustees on the board

6.5y median 4.5y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (1)

5
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 6The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 6The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 5General Charitable Purposes 1

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 6Other services 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£659k 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.

14.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 11.3 in 2021

20 from 18 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
1148198
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 12 MAR 2012AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 02/11/2012
Companies House
Company number 07987156 · Active
Contact on the register
01213212377 · info@advocacymatters.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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