Citizens Advice Nottinghamshire Central and South

Registered charity 1077828 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CITIZENS ADVICE BROXTOWE, Citizens Advice Central Nottinghamshire, EASTWOOD AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

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 Broxtowe and surrounding areas.

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 Ashfield, Broxtowe, Newark and Sherwood and surrounding areas.

Area of benefit: THE BOROUGH OF BROXTOWE AND SURROUNDING AREA

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

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Registered contact address: Broxtowe, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income deficit of £97,821 for the year ended 31 March 2025, primarily due to high charitable expenditure relative to incoming resources. However, total net assets increased to £1,267,548, supported by a significant actuarial gain on the defined benefit pension scheme. The trustees maintain that unrestricted reserves of £1,057,323 are at a prudent level, exceeding their stated policy target of six months' operating costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Rogers Spencer. Discloses 5 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

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 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/04/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/03/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dave Cainchair
• Arthur Seidel
• Caroline Joyce
• Craig Drysdale
• David Richard Kinshott
• David Roberts
• David Smith
• Sarah Ann Pearce
• Stephen Pollard

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

Operates in: Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Citizens Advice North Staffordshire LTD.

• Citizens Advice North Staffordshire LTD income £6.4m
• Citizens Advice North East Derbyshire income £907k
• NORFOLK CITIZENS ADVICE income £1.9m
• NORTH WARWICKSHIRE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £541k
• CITIZENS ADVICE IN NORTH & WEST KENT income £2.1m
• CITIZENS ADVICE NORTH EAST KENT income £603k

Side by side with its peers

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