TORRIDGE, NORTH, MID AND WEST DEVON CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

Registered charity 1068496 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BIDEFORD AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU, TORRIDGE AND BUDE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU, TORRIDGE, MID DEVON AND BUDE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU, TORRIDGE, NORTH DEVON, MID DEVON AND BUDE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted net expenditure exceeded income by £123,801 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total reserves from £403,879 to £280,078. Per the trustees' report, free reserves of £173,546 are considered sufficient to meet the stated policy target of covering three months' future unrestricted expenditure (approximately £175,000).

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PKF Francis Clark. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from more than £60,000 (FY2024) to over £60,000 (FY2025).
• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

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

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 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 (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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/10/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Coxshall · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jilly Collins · trustee of 4 other charities
• Martin Stacey Mr · trustee of 1 other charity
• Suzanne Ingman
• William Jackson

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

Operates in: Devon

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 THE NORTH TYNESIDE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU.

• THE NORTH TYNESIDE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £2.9m
• Citizens Advice Braintree & South Essex Limited income £1.5m
• CITIZENS ADVICE CENTRAL DORSET LIMITED income £1.4m
• CITIZENS ADVICE SWANSEA NEATH PORT TALBOT LIMITED income £1.4m
• CITIZENS ADVICE IN WEST SUSSEX (NORTH, SOUTH, EAST) income £2.7m
• IPSWICH AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £952k

Side by side with its peers

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