Bca Independent Advocacy Services

BCA aims through independent advocacy, to empower people with a learning disability to live their lives as valued, responsible and enriched citizensWe provide a range of advocacy services through one to one work with paid advocates and volunteers, and self advocacy through groups and outreach work.

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

In Wales

• Powys

Area of benefit in its governing document: Undefined. in Practice Powys

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £105,777 and spent £103,442.

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

Down 24%, from £139,706 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £105,777 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 98% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 15 grants to this charity since 2008, worth at least £1,375,383.

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.

Senedd and Welsh Government records that name this charity, gathered by OpenSenedd. Newest first.

• 27 November 2025

  Named by Clair Swales in the Senedd

  …tera. What I'm very concerned about now is that we're seeing these particular groups having to close due to financial pressures. And BCA Independent Advocacy Services in the south of Powys has recently closed this year, and that leaves a large number of people very vulnerable. We're not yet clear wh…

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6 trustees run the charity.

• Martin WealeChairAppointed 17 September 2014
• Carol Margaret TongueAppointed 15 September 2015
• Geoffrey SykesAppointed 12 December 2012
• Rebecca StephensAppointed 6 November 2018
• Rev Neil Richard JonesAppointed 15 September 2015
• Richard David WalkerAppointed 30 November 2011

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

1123605

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

12 April 2008

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 19 FEBRUARY 2008

Company number

06509168This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.bcaindependentadvocacy.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Powys

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• In the Senedd and Welsh Government: records gathered by OpenSenedd and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 5 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenSenedd: Senedd records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Powys Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Powys's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Brycheiniog Tawe Nedd
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Gwynedd Maldwyn