RICHMOND CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX SERVICE
Registered charity 1085878 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RCABS
Richmond CABx Service provides free, confidential, independent and impartial advice to everyone regardless of race, gender, sexuality or disability.
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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a net excess of income over expenditure of £68,443 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted reserves standing at £453,196. Per the trustees' report, this reserve level is above the stated policy target of three months' operating expenditure plus contingency, estimated between £230,000 and £240,000. However, the trustees note that the charity operates in a financially constrained environment and its going concern status depends on the extension of its primary funding contract with Richmond Council.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Largest income source: Contractual income (49% of income)
“General Advice Contractual income London Borough of Richmond upon Thames - Community Advice Services”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: three months of the annual budgeted operating expenditure of the organisation plus a contingency of £30k (held: £453k)
“in 2025 the board has approved the policy to have free reserves of 3 months of the annual budgeted operating expenditure of the organisation plus a contingency of £30k.” — page 6
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Going concern: noted by the trustees or auditor
“Provided that the advice contract with Richmond Council is extended in 2026 at a funding level above that of the funding level in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the trustees believe that the charity has a reasonable expectation of having sufficient resources to continue in operation for the foreseeable future.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
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.
- HENRY, Katherine Louise — director, appointed 06/08/2026not on trustee list
- SALAMA, Ben — director, appointed 02/06/2025on trustee list
- NICHOLLS, Alison Jane — director, appointed 25/11/2024on trustee list
- EASTAUGH, Guy — director, appointed 11/04/2024on trustee list
- GOVIL, Rakhi — director, appointed 05/09/2023on trustee list
- BROWN, Nigel — director, appointed 11/03/2023on trustee list
- CARPENTER, Annie Elisabeth — director, appointed 16/11/2022on trustee list
- WHEATLE, John Edward — director, appointed 03/08/2022on trustee list
- GRIFFITHS, Owain Emrys — director, appointed 03/08/2022on trustee list
- BARKER, Wendy — director, appointed 27/01/2021on trustee list
- HILLYER, Roger Keith — director, appointed 21/12/2020on trustee list
- HETHERINGTON, Tom Duncan — director, appointed 11/09/2018on trustee list
- REID, Lorna — secretary, appointed 19/10/2021
Official officers record.
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Reported reserves equal ~7.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).
- Alison Jane Nicholls
- Annie Carpenter
- Ben Salama · trustee of 1 other charity
- Guy Eastaugh
- John Wheatle
- Kathy Henry
- Nigel Brown
- Owain Griffiths
- Rakhi Govil
- Roger Keith Hillyer · trustee of 2 other charities
- Tom Hetherington
- Wendy Barker
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Richmond Upon Thames
Income and spending
Common questions
Is RICHMOND CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX SERVICE financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net excess of income over expenditure of £68,443 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted reserves standing at £453,196. Per the trustees' report, this reserve level is above the stated policy target of three months' operating expenditure plus contingency, estimated between £230,000 and £240,000. However, the trustees note that the charity operates in a financially constrained environment and its going concern status depends on the extension of its primary funding contract with Richmond Council. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.
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