CITIZENS ADVICE READING

Registered charity 1042542 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as READING CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

To provide the advice people need for the problems they face and to improve the policies and practices that affect peoples lives

Objects

Provide advice and support, and 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; and in carrying out its objects and in all aspects of its work, the Charity is committed to promoting diversity, equity, equality and inclusion, to preventing prejudice and discrimination, to ensuring equal access and to promoting good relations between all sections of the community; in particular, but without limitation, for the benefit of the community in Reading and surrounding areas.

Area of benefit: READING AND ITS ENVIRONS

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 · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Citizens Advice Reading achieved a net surplus of £38,549 for the year, with total income rising to £957,392 and total expenditure at £918,843. The charity held total funds of £294,406 at the year-end, comprising £269,188 in unrestricted funds and £25,218 in restricted funds. The trustees confirmed the organization is well-placed to meet obligations for at least twelve months, citing a strong cash balance of £288,492 and adequate 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 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
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Citizens Advice Reading (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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: 2.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW EDGER
• Edna Corrigan
• Ian Ronald Curtis
• Ilham Dahmani Fikry
• Jacquelin BENTON
• Marcia Francesca Macdonald-Spiers · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael Robert Kofi Asamoah
• Nicolette Barton
• Sarah Green
• Sharandeep Kaur Ubhi Matharu

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

Operates in: Reading

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CITIZENS ADVICE IN WEST SUSSEX (NORTH, SOUTH, EAST).

• CITIZENS ADVICE IN WEST SUSSEX (NORTH, SOUTH, EAST) income £2.7m
• THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX income £167.8m
• BROMSGROVE AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £558k
• LONDON CITIZENS ADVICE LTD income £1.7m
• CARDIFF AND VALE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £4.9m
• CITIZENS ADVICE 1066 income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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