THE ESHER AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

Registered charity 1012732 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ESHER AND MOLESEY CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

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Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY (‘OBJECTS’)ARE SPECIFICALLY 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 INCLUDING, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN SURREY AND IN PARTICULAR ESHER, MOLESEY, CLAYGATE, OXSHOTT, COBHAM AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

Area of benefit: ESHER, MOLESEY, CLAYGATE, OXHOTT & COBHAM - ALL IN SURREY

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a small surplus of £4,030 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total incoming resources of £272,107 against total expenditure of £269,847. The trustees state that general free reserves of £91,529 are in line with their policy of holding three to six months of budgeted expenditure, and they have a reasonable expectation of adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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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

• Mark Andrew Reasonchair
• Gillian Avril Coates
• Ian Wood
• James Kellett
• Jennifer McGurk
• Paul Ronald Hickson
• Robert James Alldis
• Sally Lynn Williams · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stephen Paul Bax · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• IPSWICH AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £952k
• THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX income £167.8m
• SCUNTHORPE AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.8m
• CITIZENS ADVICE ESSEX LIMITED income £2.1m
• SHEFFIELD CITIZENS ADVICE AND LAW CENTRE income £6.2m
• CITIZENS ADVICE IN WEST SUSSEX (NORTH, SOUTH, EAST) income £2.7m

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