THE RCJ AND ISLINGTON CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX

Registered charity 1050358 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RCJ ADVICE BUREAU, RCJ Advice – Citizens Advice & Law Centre, THE RCJ CITIZENS ADVICE BUREA, THE RCJ CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

PROMOTING ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AND RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS & DISTRESS IN PARTICULAR, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION,FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE HAVING BUSINESS AT ROYAL COURTS OF JUSTICE AND OTHERS LIVING OR WORKING THROUGHOUT ENGLAND & WALES , IN PARTICULAR IN THE LB OF ISLINGTON AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £289,177 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds. However, unrestricted reserves remain at £936,332, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet their stated policy target of three to six months of core service expenditure. The organization confirms it has secured funding until July 2026 and faces no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (87% 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: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• The Right Hon Lord Justice Peter Jacksonchair
• ALEXANDER STEVENS CARRUTHERS
• ALI SALLAWAY
• Amber Louise Andrade ACA
• Andrew Laurence Denny
• Damien Byrne Hill
• GRAHAM PAUL KINGSBY HUNTLEY
• Guy Jeffrey Pendell
• Holly Ware
• Jon Gale
• Lara Adel Nassif
• NICHOLAS MARK ATKINS
• Olivia Jane Loxley
• Patrick William Robinson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rory John Conway
• Saaman Pourghadiri-Esfahani
• Samuel Francis Brown
• Susan Leonora Labinjoh

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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 LEICESTERSHIRE.

• CITIZENS ADVICE LEICESTERSHIRE income £1.7m
• CITIZENS ADVICE LIVERPOOL LIMITED income £4.3m
• WESTMINSTER CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU SERVICE income £1.7m
• CAMBRIDGE AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.4m
• THE ROYAL BOROUGH OF KINGSTON UPON THAMES CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX SERVICE income £281k
• SUTTON BOROUGH CITIZENS' ADVICE BUREAUX income £1.9m

Side by side with its peers

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