Registered charity (CIO) · Essex
South Essex Advocacy Services
South Essex Advocacy Services is a registered charity (number 1164092) based in Essex, governed by 4 trustees and chaired by Paula Whittle since 2022. Latest income £411k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.
Also known as Seeafop (Charity Commission)
- 4 trustees
- Income £411k (2025)
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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, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity and 1 more
- Where
- Southend-on-sea, Essex
- Website
- www.southessexadvocacy.org (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2015
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£411k£376k
- 2024£367k£357k
- 2023£389k£344k
Earlier years
- 2022£422k£352k
- 2021£333k£351k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 54%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE IN NEED, INCLUDING THE ELDERLY, WITHIN THE SOUTH EAST ESSEX AREA BY THE PROVISION OF AN ADVOCACY SERVICE, GOODS OR SERVICES.
Grants received
19 grants · £703,255 total360Giving 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
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £524,264 (2 grants)
- Essex Community Foundation · £145,591 (13 grants)
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £30,000 (2 grants)
- The Clothworkers' Foundation · £2,400
- Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust · £1,000
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.
4 trustees on the board
- Paula Whittle Chair since 2022
- Keith Davidson since 2022
- Marcia Carr since 2022
- Nirmal Gupta MBE since 2022
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (2)
- Keith Davidson since 2022
- Marcia Carr since 2022
Portfolio (2)
- Paula Whittle Chair since 2022
- Nirmal Gupta MBE since 2022
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1164092
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION REGISTERED 23 OCT 2015AMENDED ON 14 DEC 2017
- Contact on the register
- 01702340566 · paula.blundell@southessexadvocacy.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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