LUTON CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

Registered charity 1068411 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LUTON CITIZEN ADVICE BUREAU

Luton Citizens Advice Bureau provides a free, independent, impartial and confidential advice service to the people of the Borough of Luton

Objects

The charity’s objects (‘Objects’) are specifically: 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 Luton and surrounding areas.

Area of benefit: LUTON, BEDFORDSHIRE

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

Causes: 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 £44,953 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total reserves from £691,019 to £646,066. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of £458,208 comfortably cover the stated policy target of four months of expected cash outflow (£250,000). The charity remains reliant on restricted grants for core activities and notes funding constraints impacting service delivery.

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.

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
• 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 Luton (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~9.6 months of spending — above 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alistair McKenzie
• DAVID OLNEY
• Ehsan Asif Alam
• FATIMA BEGUM
• Haidar Rashid
• Hayden Paul West
• Kathryn Dale
• Melanie Neale
• Susan Jones

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

Operates in: Luton

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 HALTON CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU.

• HALTON CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.2m
• CITIZENS ADVICE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE LTD income £1.3m
• MID SUFFOLK CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £332k
• NORTH HERTFORDSHIRE AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £725k
• BARNET CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.5m
• SCUNTHORPE AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

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