COVENTRY CITIZENS ADVICE

Registered charity 1000487 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COVENTRY CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

Provide generalist and specialist advice, advise people on their rights, this can include employment, consumer, housing or relationship, debt and benefits-related enquiries.

Objects

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS ARE TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS IN PARTICULAR, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN COVENTRY AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

Area of benefit: COVENTRY AND IMMEDIATE SURROUNDING AREAS

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Coventry, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net income of £59,213 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £445,021. This level of unrestricted funds exceeds the trustees' stated minimum reserves policy target of £202,000, which is calculated to cover three months of non-grant supported operating costs and other contingencies. The trustees and auditors confirmed that the financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HB&O Ltd. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02122698

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Coventry Citizens Advice (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• THIRU, Anjula — director, appointed 08/12/2025on trustee list
• PRESTWICH, Charlotte Amy — director, appointed 08/12/2025on trustee list
• CARTER, Stewart Graham — director, appointed 08/12/2025on trustee list
• GILL, Purminder Singh — director, appointed 25/09/2025on trustee list
• FROST, Peter Nicholas — director, appointed 01/06/2023on trustee list
• WALKER-THOMPSON, Janet — director, appointed 27/05/2021on trustee list
• ABBOTT, Faye, Councillor Mrs — director, appointed 29/05/2014on trustee list
• BRAKE, Simon, Professor — director, appointed 23/08/2007on trustee list
• RICHARDS, Simon Ian — secretary, appointed 06/05/2025

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• PETER NICHOLAS FROSTchair
• Anjula Thiru · trustee of 1 other charity
• COUNCILLOR ABBOTT · trustee of 3 other charities
• Charlotte Amy Prestwich
• Imelda Rose Elish Ryan
• Janet Walker-Thompson
• Jennifer Anne Pearce
• Professor Simon Brake · trustee of 5 other charities
• Purminder Singh Gill
• Stewart Graham Carter

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Coventry City

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHARNWOOD CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU.

• CHARNWOOD CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £251k
• NORTH WARWICKSHIRE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £541k
• CITIZENS ADVICE DONCASTER BOROUGH income £1.9m
• CITIZENS ADVICE IN NORTH & WEST KENT income £2.1m
• CLIFTON WELFARE RIGHTS ADVICE CENTRE income £51k
• CITIZENS ADVICE SOUTH WARWICKSHIRE income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.