Citizens Advice Lancashire West
Registered charity 1078558 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHORLEY AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU, CHORLEY, SOUTH RIBBLE AND DISTRICTS CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX, CITIZENS ADVICE LANCASHIRE, LANCASHIRE WEST CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX, LANCASHIRE WEST CITIZENS ADVICEBUREAUX
Advice and information
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that demand for services remained high due to the cost-of-living crisis, with over 23,000 clients assisted. The charity relies on local statutory funders and project funding to support its generalist services and community employment. No specific financial health metrics or reserves policies are disclosed in the provided text.
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.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Reported reserves equal ~11.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (04/03/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- JOHN MICHAEL CROMPTON LLBchair
- Claire Cash
- Gordon France · trustee of 2 other charities
- Graham Andrew Robinson
- Kenneth Minto · trustee of 1 other charity
- Lesley Mary Pritchard
- Linda Marjorie Webster
- Nigel Holden
- PATRICIA MARIE DARLING
- Paul David Williams
- ROBERT KEITH SAGE
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Lancashire
Income and spending
Common questions
Is Citizens Advice Lancashire West financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that demand for services remained high due to the cost-of-living crisis, with over 23,000 clients assisted. The charity relies on local statutory funders and project funding to support its generalist services and community employment. No specific financial health metrics or reserves policies are disclosed in the provided text. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.
Government & lottery funding
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