Wantage Independent Advice Centre

Analysis

Wantage Independent Advice Centre is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Wantage. It was registered in April 2015, 11 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it provides services and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Wantage Independent Advice Centre reported income of £225k and spending of £252k, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £330k to £225k (-32%), an average of -9.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income dropped by 33%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Wantage Independent Advice Centre sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of the Hailey Day Centre (£224k), The John Macleod Charitable Trust (£226k) and Wickens Family Foundation (£224k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.