Advocacy West Wales - Eiriolaeth Gorllewin Cymru

To relieve the effects of mental health problems, disadvantage and disengagement amongst those people living in West Wales and those areas of Wales commissioning advocacy in partnership with commissioners in West Wales , through the provision of a comprehensive independent advocacy service.

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

In Wales

• Ceredigion
• Carmarthenshire
• Pembrokeshire

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £841,713 and spent £805,334.

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 28%, from £656,001 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £841,713 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 96% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

88% of its income in the year to 31 March 2021 came from government grants and contracts (£576,494).

Largest funder

CIPA gave £259,951 in the year to 31 March 2025, 31% 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: £695,342 from 5 contracts.

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 5 funders who gave £830,342 between them. £0 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 8 grants to this charity since 2018, worth at least £256,850.

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.

5 trustees run the charity.

• Andrew WattersAppointed 1 February 2017
• Daniel Adam RosieAppointed 23 September 2023
• Emlyn SciavoneAppointed 19 March 2020
• Helen ButlandAppointed 14 June 2017
• Ursula Jane KelsoAppointed 1 February 2017

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

1172200

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

22 March 2017

Governing document

CIO - FOUNDATION REGISTERED 22 MAR 2017 AS AMENDED ON 18 NOV 2019AMENDED ON 10 FEB 2020

Website

www.advocacywestwales.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Pembrokeshire

• 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.

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

• OpenCouncil: Pembrokeshire Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Pembrokeshire's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Ceredigion Penfro