NORTH HERTFORDSHIRE AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

Registered charity 1086489 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of a free, confidential, impartial, independent service of advice guidance and support to anyone in North Hertfordshire and South Cambridgeshire.

Objects

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 NORTH HERTFORDSHIRE, SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND SURROUNDING AREAS

Area of benefit: NORTH HERTFORDSHIRE, SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND SURROUNDING AREAS

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 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 loss of £51,141 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total unrestricted funds from £353,480 to £302,339. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds sufficient reserves to cover more than three months of operating costs, which falls within the National Association of Citizens Advice low-risk category.

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 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
• 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

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

Funders the charity credits

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

• The Brian Leslie Racher 2004 Charitable Trust — “Thank you to all of our funders The Brian Leslie Racher 2004 Charitable Trust” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title 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 · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Hayward
• DOLORES MARIA CURRIE
• David Charles Watson
• FIONA WEIR · trustee of 1 other charity
• Judith Victoria Brooks · trustee of 1 other charity
• Karen Livingstone
• Richard Paul Thackeray
• Rosalynd Boxall

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Hertfordshire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE NORTH TYNESIDE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU.

• THE NORTH TYNESIDE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £2.9m
• LUTON CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £726k
• HERTSMERE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £755k
• CITIZENS ADVICE COLCHESTER income £294k
• BARNET CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.5m
• STEVENAGE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £2.3m

Side by side with its peers

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