Riverside Advice Ltd

A free, independent, comprehensive, confidential, welfare rights advice service targeting vulnerable people with 'special' needs. Enabling and empowering residents to obtain information, advice and representation which will allow them to exercise their rights and responsibilities alleviating poverty, deprivation and social exclusion in a holistic way and therefore improve quality of life.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Communities of Wales and in Particular West Cardiff

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £538,577 and spent £564,354.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Up 32%, from £408,051 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £538,577 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 105% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

29% of its income in the year to 31 March 2021 came from government grants and contracts (£117,957).

Largest funder

British Gas Energy Trust gave £290,800 in the year to 31 March 2025, 54% of that year's income.Read by AI from the charity's accounts.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 March 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 March 2025, the charity named 8 funders who gave £524,809 between them. £62,980 of that came from public bodies.

These figures were read from the accounts the charity filed with the Charity Commission by Claude, an AI model, in OpenEconomy's accounts reader. AI can misread a table, so check the accounts on the register before relying on a figure.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 7 grants to this charity since 2010, worth at least £427,873.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

Public bodies' published spending shows 4 payments to this charity worth £102,992 between 11 September 2025 and 30 June 2026.

Councils and Welsh Government publish what they pay suppliers and grant holders above a threshold, usually £500 for councils and £25,000 for Welsh Government, so smaller payments are missing. A payment is shown only when OpenEconomy matched it to this charity with certainty. These figures come from the payer's records. They are a separate measure from the charity's own accounts, 360Giving grants and its annual return, and are never added to them.

4 trustees run the charity.

• Elizabeth Jane WilliamsAppointed 31 December 2021
• Iain CampbellAppointed 31 December 2021
• Julia Rachel LewisAppointed 31 December 2021
• Martin John Charles GowerAppointed 14 December 2023

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1100551

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

5 November 2003

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 4 APRIL 2003 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 4 NOVEMBER 2003

Company number

04723825This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.riverside-advice.co.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Cardiff

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader on 1 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Payments from public bodies: each body's own published spending data, matched to the charity by OpenEconomy. 5 public bodies' data is included so far.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: Cardiff Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Cardiff's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Penarth