ISLE OF WIGHT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

Registered charity 1050217 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as IOW CAB

The Isle of Wight Citizens Advice Bureau provides advice which is free,independent and impartial and ensures that people know their rights and responsibilities. We support the community by local and national social policy involvement

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE AREA OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS.

Area of benefit: IN PRACTICE, ISLE OF WIGHT

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds total funds of £449,065, with unrestricted free reserves of £144,688. The trustees report a good financial position, though they note that high inflation and funding pressures require the charity to fund inflationary increases from its own accumulated 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
• 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
• 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 profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jeanette Howells
• Loretta Joan Outhwaite
• Neil Robert Moody KC
• Richard Edward Geal
• Robert Thompson MBE

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

Operates in: Isle Of Wight

Income and spending

Common questions

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 HAMPSHIRE.

• CITIZENS ADVICE HAMPSHIRE income £1.7m
• ISLE OF WIGHT SCOUT COUNCIL income £230k
• CANOLFAN CYNGHORI YNYS MON CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.4m
• IPSWICH AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £952k
• AGE CONCERN ISLE OF WIGHT income £1.3m
• WILTSHIRE CITIZENS ADVICE income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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