WANTAGE INDEPENDENT ADVICE CENTRE

Charity Number: 1161144
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)

Charity overview

Activities - how the charity spends its money

Advice. Free, confidential advice from trained volunteers on a range of topics, debt, benefits, employment/consumer rights & many more. Transport Scheme. Volunteer drivers take elderly and infirm people to various destinations including hospital, doctors, shopping & Day Centres. Good Neighbour Scheme. Volunteers visiting people in their own home to help with paperwork & to alleviate loneliness.

Income and expenditure

Data for financial year ending 31 March 2024

Total income: £215,066
Total expenditure: £229,210

Total income includes £134,600 from 7 government grant(s)

People

13 Trustee(s)

128 Volunteer(s)

Employees with total benefits over £60,000

No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charity

Fundraising

No information available

Trading

This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.

Trustee payments

No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.

What, who, how, where

What the charity does:
  • General Charitable Purposes
Who the charity helps:
  • The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
  • Provides Services
  • Provides Advocacy/advice/information
Where the charity operates:
  • Oxfordshire

Governance

Registration history:
  • 01 April 2015: CIO registration
  • 17 February 2017: Funds received from 270992 THE INDEPENDENT ADVICE CENTRE SERVING WANTAGE GROV...
  • 10 October 2024: Funds received from 1049373 WANTAGE ROTARY CLUB TRUST FUND
Organisation type:
CIO
Other names:
  • Vale Community Impact (Working name)
  • WIAC (Working name)
Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
  • Financial Conduct Authority
Policies:
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Land and property:
This charity does not own and/or lease land or property

Trustees

Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service

13 Trustee(s)

Name Role Date of appointment Other trusteeships Reporting status of other trusteeships
GRAHAM BEITH Chair 19 June 2017
None on record
Lesley Boler Trustee 13 March 2025
THAMES VALLEY AIR AMBULANCE
Received: On time
Patrick Martin O'Leary Trustee 13 March 2025
None on record
Jason Brockbank-Gash Trustee 19 December 2023
None on record
Toby Phillips Trustee 26 October 2023
None on record
John Leggott Trustee 07 October 2022
None on record
Christopher John Warwick Trustee 24 September 2019
None on record
Kimberly Anne Morgan Trustee 17 September 2019
OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL
Received: On time
Ronald Michael Batstone Trustee 19 June 2019
VALE AND DOWNLAND MUSEUM (WANTAGE)
Received: On time
Christine Walters Cllr Trustee 12 June 2019
THE WANTAGE DISTRICT CORONATION MEMORIAL AND NURSING AMENITIES FUND
Received: On time
Ian Griffiths Trustee 04 December 2018
None on record
JENNY HANNABY Trustee 28 June 2016
KING ALFRED'S EDUCATIONAL CHARITY
Received: 111 days late
WANTAGE LITERARY FESTIVAL
Received: On time
Dr David Wise Trustee 28 June 2016
None on record

Financial history

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Financial period end date

Income / Expenditure 31/03/2020 31/03/2021 31/03/2022 31/03/2023 31/03/2024
Total gross income £177.15k £330.41k £223.02k £167.90k £215.07k
Total expenditure £182.58k £203.62k £198.27k £214.19k £229.21k
Income from government contracts N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Income from government grants N/A £116.23k £128.34k £93.59k £134.60k

Accounts and annual returns

This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
Title Reporting year Date received Received Download
Annual return 31 March 2024 30 January 2025 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2024 31 January 2025 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2023 31 January 2024 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2023 31 January 2024 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2022 02 February 2023 2 days late
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2022 16 February 2023 16 days late Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2021 28 January 2022 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2021 28 January 2022 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2020 02 December 2020 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2020 02 December 2020 On Time Download Open in new window
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Governing document

Details of the type of governing document the charity has and when it was established.
It is not the full text of the charity's governing document.

CIO - ASSOCIATION REGISTERED 01 APR 2015 AMENDED ON 12 JUL 2018 as amended on 27 Nov 2020

Charitable objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED, FOR ANY REASON INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, SOCIAL EXCLUSION. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE 'SOCIAL EXCLUSION' MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE;ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHINIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS; CRIME (EITHER AS VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY). THE OBJECT WILL BE MET BY THE PROVISION OF SERVICES AS SET OUT BELOW FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE VALE OF WHITE HORSE AREA 1. AN ADVICE AND INFORMATION SERVICE 2. A TRANSPORT SERVICE 3. A GOOD NEIGHBOUR SERVICE 4. OTHER SERVICES, PROVIDED FROM TIME TO TIME, WHICH ARE DEEMED APPROPRIATE AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATED CHARITABLE OBJECTIVE.

Contact information

Address:
Wantage Independent Advice Centre
T/A Vale Community Impact
16 Market Place
WANTAGE
OX12 8AE
Phone:
01235765348
Email:
help@vci.org.uk
Website:

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