CITIZENS ADVICE CUMBRIA

Registered charity 1079229 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Enabling cooperative actions in obtaining contracts covering the whole county, and subsequently cordinating their delivery by some or all of the five separate CA bureaux acting as sub-contractors

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN CUMBRIA BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION; THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH; THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AND TO IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE CHARITABLE PURPOSES OF CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX

Area of benefit: CUMBRIA

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westmorland and Furness, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a net income of £1,039 for the year ended 31 March 2026, with total funds carried forward of £31,489. The organization relies entirely on Macmillan Cancer Support for funding and maintains a designated reserve of £14,000, which is below its stated policy target of covering nine months of governance costs. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate reserves to continue as a going concern for the next twelve months.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2025) to "below" (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed 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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew John Setters
• COLIN RANSHAW · trustee of 3 other charities
• Claire Thornhill
• Craig Brown · trustee of 1 other charity
• Geoffrey Peter Smith
• KAREN EVANS · trustee of 1 other charity
• KEITH ANTHONY LITTLE
• MR ANDY AULD
• Shelley Amanda Hewitson
• Tara Francizca Edwards

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

Operates in: Cumbria

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COVENTRY CITIZENS ADVICE.

• COVENTRY CITIZENS ADVICE income £1.8m
• CITIZENS ADVICE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE LTD income £1.4m
• CITIZENS ADVICE DONCASTER BOROUGH income £1.9m
• RUSHMOOR CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX income £1.8m
• PEMBROKESHIRE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £819k
• BARROW CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £453k

Side by side with its peers

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