CHELMSFORD CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

Registered charity 1088290 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHELMSFORD CAB

To promote and provide Citizen Advice Bureau services for the benefit of the whole community in the area of the Borough of Chelmsford

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£1.2m

Latest spending

£1.1m

Registered

2001

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided document excerpt is limited to the reference details, administrative information, and the initial pages of the Trustees' Report. It does not contain the Statement of Financial Activities, Balance Sheet, or Notes to the Accounts, so no facts regarding financial health, reserves, or income/expenditure are available to assess.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Governance: The document contains no explicit statements regarding late filing, regulator engagement, serious incidents, or internal control failures. The text provided is limited to the front matter, reference details, and the beginning of the Trustees' Report.

“The Trustees confirm that this Annual Report and financial statements have been prepared in accordance with current statutory requirements and comply with the Companies Act 2006, the requirements of the company's governing document, and the Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) which are applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable to the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.” — page 4

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Affinia (Orpington). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 0 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

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

Total income

£1.2m

Total spending

£1.1m

Reserves (reported)

£365k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~4.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Alexander Mark Tarala · trustee of 1 other charity
Danielle Hay
Faye Stevenson
Hazel Olive Clark
Shweta Kaur Singh · trustee of 1 other charity
Smita Rajesh · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£1.2m	£1.1m
31/03/2024	£923k	£924k
31/03/2023	£869k	£999k
31/03/2022	£951k	£907k
31/03/2021	£952k	£825k

Common questions

Is CHELMSFORD CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The provided document excerpt is limited to the reference details, administrative information, and the initial pages of the Trustees' Report. It does not contain the Statement of Financial Activities, Balance Sheet, or Notes to the Accounts, so no facts regarding financial health, reserves, or income/expenditure are available to assess. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Affinia (Orpington).

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	18/03/2010	£10k	IP Telephone system allowing remote advisers

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BARNSLEY AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU.

BARNSLEY AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.0m
CONWY DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.2m
THE CHELTENHAM TRUST income £8.3m
CHAPELTOWN CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £672k
BERKHAMPSTEAD SCHOOL (CHELTENHAM) TRUST LIMITED income £5.4m
LIDGET GREEN HEALTHY LIVING CENTRE income £110k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
CHELMSFORD CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU	£1.2m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
BARNSLEY AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU FY2025	£1.0m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
CONWY DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU FY2025	£1.2m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE CHELTENHAM TRUST FY2025	£8.3m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
CHAPELTOWN CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU FY2025	£672k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
BERKHAMPSTEAD SCHOOL (CHELTENHAM) TRUST LIMITED FY2025	£5.4m	—	—	below	—	no doubt

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