CITIZENS ADVICE SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Registered charity 1037480 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NORTHAVON CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU, SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

The Charity's objects are to promote any charitable purpose for the benefit of the community in South Gloucestershire and surrounding areas by the advancement of education, the protection and preservation of health and the relief of poverty, sickness and distress.

Objects

FOR THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND SURROUNDING AREAS BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS.

Area of benefit: SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND SURROUNDING AREAS

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds totalled £407,004, which the trustees consider sufficient to maintain reserves between three and six months of expenditure. The charity reported a net income surplus of £101,983 for the year, supported by significant grant funding from South Gloucestershire Council and other local bodies.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Haines Watts Swindon Limited. 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
• 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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02715290

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Citizens Advice South Gloucestershire (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).

• Almondsbury Parish Council — “Our Supporters in 2025-26 Almondsbury Parish Council” (source page)

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.

• CAUNT, Alice — director, appointed 11/08/2026on trustee list
• KERKVLIET, Joseph Bernardus — director, appointed 12/08/2025on trustee list
• SHARP, Thomas Leslie — director, appointed 13/05/2025on trustee list
• BLIKMANS, Janet Wilhelmina Maria — director, appointed 12/11/2024on trustee list
• MURPHY, Shaun Patrick — director, appointed 14/05/2024on trustee list
• WEBB, Deborah Jane — director, appointed 07/02/2024on trustee list
• CORRY, John-Paul — director, appointed 08/12/2022on trustee list
• WOOD, Amanda Dawn — secretary, appointed 01/04/2016

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £350k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/09/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alice Caunt
• Deborah Webb
• Janet Wilhelmina Maria Blikmans
• John-Paul Corry
• Joseph Kerkvliet
• Shaun Patrick Murphy
• Thomas Leslie Sharp

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Bristol City · Gloucestershire · North Somerset · South Gloucestershire · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CITIZENS ADVICE STROUD & COTSWOLD DISTRICTS LTD.

• CITIZENS ADVICE STROUD & COTSWOLD DISTRICTS LTD income £725k
• CITIZENS ADVICE IN WEST SUSSEX (NORTH, SOUTH, EAST) income £2.7m
• SOUTHAMPTON CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.7m
• CVS SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE income £274k
• STAFFORDSHIRE SOUTH WEST CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.5m
• 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.