Citizens Advice North Staffordshire LTD
Registered charity 1001204 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as STAFFORDSHIRE NORTH AND STOKE-ON-TRENT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX, STOKE ON TRENT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX
Provision of advice, information and support to people resident in the area of benefit on their legal rights, to help them deal with legal financial and other problems. Our main areas of work concern problems with debt, welfare benefits, housing rights, immigration and asylum issues, and employment rights. We also seek to influence the development of policies and services.
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £217,158 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted reserves of £1,945,760. The trustees confirmed that adequate resources exist to meet liabilities as they fall due, adopting the going concern basis of accounting. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and holds no defined benefit pension deficits.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Accounts audited by Dains Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Year-over-year changes
- Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 0 (FY2025).
Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Citizens Advice Staffordshire North and Stoke-on-Trent (matched by registered charity number).
Funders the charity credits
Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).
- Money and Pensions Service — “Our local debt advice service is funded by the Money and Pensions Service along with Stoke-on-Trent City Council.” (source page)
- Stoke-on-Trent City Council — “Our local debt advice service is funded by the Money and Pensions Service along with Stoke-on-Trent City Council.” (source page)
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£69k
Reported reserves equal ~4.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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: 1.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (26/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (15/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (24/01/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (24/01/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (09/07/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Margaret Grahamslawchair
- BERTRAM CEDRIC LAWTON
- Connor Brady
- Deborah Ware
- JAMES DAVIES
- Keith Hoptroff
- Magda Styles
- Philip Haddock
- Seema Kazmi
- Stephen Dawson
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Throughout England And Wales
Income and spending
Common questions
Is Citizens Advice North Staffordshire LTD financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £217,158 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted reserves of £1,945,760. The trustees confirmed that adequate resources exist to meet liabilities as they fall due, adopting the going concern basis of accounting. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and holds no defined benefit pension deficits. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Dains Audit Limited.
Government & lottery funding
Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).
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Side by side with its peers
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