CITIZENS ADVICE WOKING

Registered charity 1004585 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WOKING CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £91,047 for the year ended March 2025, maintaining unrestricted reserves of £321,831. However, the trustees report a material uncertainty regarding future grant income levels for 2026/27, noting that the charity is projecting a deficit for the current financial year. Despite these uncertainties, the charity confirms it has stabilized its financial situation and maintains healthy reserves.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~3.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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 (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/02/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ann Brown
• DR Chris Smith
• Deborah Harlow
• Dominic Maher · trustee of 1 other charity
• John David Butler
• Laurence Oates
• Louise Gail Scott · trustee of 1 other charity
• Tony Deans
• William Annandale

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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