Citizens Advice Solent East

Registered charity 1039776 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CITIZENS ADVICE PORTSMOUTH, Citizens Advice Solent East Limited, PORTSMOUTH CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

The provision of free, confidential, independent and impartial advice and information at a central Portsmouth and a central Havant location.

Objects

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 Gosport, Havant and Portsmouth and surrounding areas.

Area of benefit: HAVANT AND PORTSMOUTH 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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Portsmouth, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £402,465, which falls below the stated policy target of £450,000 to £900,000. The charity reported a net incoming resource of £43,457 for the year, having diversified its income sources through recent mergers.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Audit. Discloses 3 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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 02946921 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• LITTLEJOHN, David Leslie — director, appointed 21/09/2026on trustee list
• NICHOLAS, Charles John Harrison — director, appointed 21/08/2025on trustee list
• MACKAY, James Richard — director, appointed 21/08/2025on trustee list
• BOSSHARDT, Robert George — director, appointed 01/01/2025on trustee list
• SMALL, Laura Clare — director, appointed 01/01/2025on trustee list
• CHRISTIE, Adam — director, appointed 01/12/2024on trustee list
• SWEATMAN, Robert Clive — director, appointed 21/10/2024on trustee list
• BROOK, Peter Bernard — director, appointed 12/04/2022on trustee list
• LITTLE, Thomas Antony — director, appointed 28/09/2021on trustee list
• NIENALTOWSKI, Stefan — director, appointed 25/01/2018not on trustee list
• CULLEN, Ashley Ian — director, appointed 27/04/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Stef Nienaltowskichair
• Adam Christie
• Ashley Cullen
• Charles John Harrison Nicholas
• David Leslie Littlejohn
• JAMES RICHARD MACKAY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Laura Clare Small
• Peter Bernard Brook
• ROBERT GEORGE BOSSHARDT
• Robert Clive Sweatman · trustee of 1 other charity
• Thomas Antony Little

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Portsmouth 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

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CITIZENS ADVICE NORTH EAST KENT.

• CITIZENS ADVICE NORTH EAST KENT income £603k
• SOUTH HAMS CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £571k
• Citizens Advice East Hampshire Limited income £779k
• CITIZENS ADVICE IN NORTH & WEST KENT income £2.1m
• CITIZENS ADVICE IN WEST SUSSEX (NORTH, SOUTH, EAST) income £2.7m
• CITIZENS ADVICE THANET income £405k

Side by side with its peers

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