CITIZENS ADVICE KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA
Registered charity 1057195 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU SERVICE
The Citizens Advice Service in Kensington & Chelsea is an independent charity serving the local community. Generalist advice services provided by our main office is at 37 Pembroke Road, London W86PW . We hold outreaches across the borough and details are on www.citizensadvicekc.org.uk. Additional services provided: Welfare benefits, Housing, Income Maximisation and other advice services.
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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that unrestricted reserves amounted to £727,168, representing 67% of revenue expenditure, which the trustees hold as a working balance to smooth fluctuations. The trustees and auditors confirm that the charity has sufficient resources to continue as a going concern, with no material uncertainties identified regarding its ability to operate for at least twelve months.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: unrestricted funds in fixed assets of not less than £309,385 (held: £727k)
“Trustees consider, bearing in mind these risks and the position set out below, that there should be unrestricted funds, neither committed nor invested, in fixed assets of not less than £250,000. From April 2024 this figure increased to £309,385.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Goldwins Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Robert Orr-Ewing — Chair (source)
Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Reported reserves equal ~7.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).
- Anjali Saini
- Anna Moulton · trustee of 1 other charity
- Dori Alexander Schmetterling
- Dr Jonathan Pinto
- Esperanza Cerdan
- Fiona Wilkinson Huckett
- Olga Petrovic
- Robert Orr-Ewing
- Teresa Chick
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Kensington And Chelsea
Income and spending
Common questions
Is CITIZENS ADVICE KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves amounted to £727,168, representing 67% of revenue expenditure, which the trustees hold as a working balance to smooth fluctuations. The trustees and auditors confirm that the charity has sufficient resources to continue as a going concern, with no material uncertainties identified regarding its ability to operate for at least twelve months. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Goldwins Limited.
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