CITIZENS ADVICE THANET

Registered charity 1086799 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THANET DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

To deliver the Citizens Advice service to the people of Thanet, ensuring as far as possible that individuals do not suffer through lack of knowledge of their rights and responsibilities or of the services available to them or through an inability to express their needs effectively. Trading as a partner of Citizens Advice North East Kent from April 2026.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE 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 THE ISLE OF THANET IN THE COUNTY OF KENT AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

Area of benefit: THE ISLE OF THANET IN THE COUNTY OF KENT 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: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased slightly to £361,659, with unrestricted general funds rising to £176,893. The trustees confirm the charity can operate as a going concern, citing secured core funding from Thanet District Council and sufficient reserves to meet future needs.

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
• 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

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/03/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ann Pamela Kenworthy · trustee of 1 other charity
• Connor Harney · trustee of 1 other charity
• Hilary Anne Brighton · trustee of 2 other charities
• Nicola Dina Parmar
• Sharon Kim Wilding

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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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 East Suffolk.

• Citizens Advice East Suffolk income £1.2m
• CITIZENS ADVICE IN WEST SUSSEX (NORTH, SOUTH, EAST) income £2.7m
• CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU IN SWALE income £531k
• CITIZENS ADVICE IN NORTH & WEST KENT income £2.1m
• NORFOLK CITIZENS ADVICE income £1.9m
• CITIZENS ADVICE LINCOLNSHIRE income £314k

Side by side with its peers

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