KIRKLEES CITIZENS ADVICE AND LAW CENTRE
Registered charity 1088651 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KIRKLEES CITIZENS ADVICE, SOUTH KIRKLEES CAB, SOUTH KIRKLEES CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU
Kirklees Citizens Advice provides advice and information to the residents of Kirklees. This includes generalist advice and specialist advice on debt and benefits.
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 KIRKLEES AND SURROUNDING AREAS
Area of benefit: KIRKLEES 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 · website · Get email alerts
Registered contact address: Kirklees, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £109,553 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted reserves from £895,849 to £786,296. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of £786,296 are compliant with the stated policy of retaining 2–4 months of operating costs, equivalent to 5.5 months of budgeted expenditure. The independent auditor confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties identified.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Largest income source: Charitable activities (61% of income)
“Total income 1,202,720 452,323 1,655,043” — page 15
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: 2 - 4 months operating costs (reserves figure: £786k)
“The organisation policy is to retain 2 — 4 months operating costs (based on budgeted forecast for the year ahead) as reserves” — page 7
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by BK Plus Audit Limited. 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
- Campaigns and political activity 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
From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)
Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025
- Volunteers: 17
- Government income: £1,563,294 — contracts £283,779 (1), grants £1,279,515 (7); 94% of the £1,655,043 total gross income on the same return
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024
- Volunteers: 26
- Government income: £1,334,097 — contracts £293,915 (1), grants £1,040,182 (3); 76% of the £1,752,974 total gross income on the same return
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023
- Volunteers: 26
- Government income: £1,587,476 — contracts £366,781 (1), grants £1,220,695 (6); 100% of the £1,595,278 total gross income on the same return
Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.
Funders the charity credits
Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).
- Yorkshire Building Society (YBS) — “Yorkshire Building Society (YBS)” (source page)
Public-sector contracts awarded
From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Reported reserves equal ~5.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (12/10/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (23/01/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Umar Shafatchair
- Alison Westwood
- Annie Hinton
- Carol May McKenna
- Lesley Reilly · trustee of 1 other charity
- Milica Vujatovic
- Mohammad Maqsood
- Tayyib Abrar
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Kirklees
Income and spending
Common questions
Is KIRKLEES CITIZENS ADVICE AND LAW CENTRE financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £109,553 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted reserves from £895,849 to £786,296. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of £786,296 are compliant with the stated policy of retaining 2–4 months of operating costs, equivalent to 5.5 months of budgeted expenditure. The independent auditor confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by BK Plus Audit Limited.
Known funders
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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.
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