CITIZENS ADVICE EAST BERKSHIRE LIMITED

Registered charity 1065672 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRACKNELL AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU, BRACKNELL CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

Information and advice to the public of Bracknell Forest, Maidenehad & Windsor and surrounding areas for the advancement of education, the protection and preservation of health and the relief of poverty, sickness and distress in particular.

Objects

The Charity’s objects are 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 Bracknell Forest and Maidenhead & Windsor and surrounding areas.

Area of benefit: BRACKNELL FOREST BOROUGH COUNCIL

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 · 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 deficit of £86,314 for the year ended 31 March 2025, following a deficit of £60,012 in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £297,314, which falls within the agreed target range of £151,302 to £456,222, and the trustees maintain a reasonable expectation of adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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 4 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

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

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/01/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Diane O'Neal
• Elizabeth Vivienne Egan
• Hazel Carol Standbridge
• Janine Lesley Nieuwoudt
• Lewis Stuart Jackman-Clarke
• Paul Geoffrey REynolds
• Simon Wray
• Suzanne Jayne McVie

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

Operates in: Bracknell Forest · Slough · Windsor And Maidenhead

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WEST BERKSHIRE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU.

• WEST BERKSHIRE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £306k
• CITIZENS ADVICE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE LTD income £1.3m
• CITIZENS ADVICE IN WEST SUSSEX (NORTH, SOUTH, EAST) income £2.7m
• CITIZENS ADVICE ESSEX LIMITED income £2.1m
• WANDSWORTH CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX LIMITED income £2.2m
• THE BASINGSTOKE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU LIMITED income £488k

Side by side with its peers

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