SOUTHWARK CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX SERVICE

Registered charity 1070263 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Southwark Citizens Advice Bureaux Service aims to provide free, confidential, impartial and independent advice and information for the benefit of the local community, to exercise a responsible influence on the development of social policies and services and to ensure individuals do not suffer through a lack of knowledge or an inability to express their needs effectively.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £82,441 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted reserves standing at £1,356,417. The trustees confirm that these reserves are in line with their stated policy of maintaining approximately six months of working capital expenditure. The independent auditors concluded that there are no material uncertainties related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the charity's 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 Menzies LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03507093

What the charity says about itself (2024/2025)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Mayor of London — “Citizens Advice are pleased to announce that we have received funding from the Mayor of London under the Family Financial Resilience Partner…” (source page)
• GLA — “The project was run as a partnership across London, funded by the GLA and we have helped more than 85k people with more than £40 million wor…” (source page)
• London Borough of Southwark — “Thank you to our funders: London Borough of Southwark” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• SCOVELL, Marion — director, appointed 05/11/2025on trustee list
• GODDARD, Matthew James — director, appointed 05/11/2025on trustee list
• BODDINGTON, Rowena — director, appointed 08/11/2023on trustee list
• DAVEY, Diana Melissa Lilian Iris — director, appointed 10/05/2023on trustee list
• SHARMA, Abeer — director, appointed 05/09/2021on trustee list
• SMITH, Thomas Canning — director, appointed 26/08/2020on trustee list
• BOYER, Patricia — director, appointed 03/08/2010on trustee list
• GREEN, Christopher Leonard — secretary, appointed 26/02/2001

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles 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

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

Reported reserves equal ~8.2 months of spending — above the median 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).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Thomas Smithchair
• Abeer Sharma
• Diana Melissa Lilian Iris Davey
• Marion Scovell
• Matthew James Goddard
• PATRICIA BOYER
• Rowena Boddington

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

Operates in: Bexley · Bromley · Greenwich · Lambeth · Lewisham · Southwark

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Citizens Advice Mid Mercia.

• Citizens Advice Mid Mercia income £5.1m
• SUTTON BOROUGH CITIZENS' ADVICE BUREAUX income £1.9m
• SCUNTHORPE AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.8m
• HOUNSLOW CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX SERVICE income £1.3m
• Citizens Advice South West Surrey income £1.4m
• WYRE FOREST CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £410k

Side by side with its peers

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