ROTHERHAM & DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

Registered charity 1089261 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Citizens Advice Rotherham and District provides legal advice in any area of social law to the community of Rotherham to ensure its citizens do not suffer through a lack of knowledge of their rights and responsibilities. We actively work in support of raising issues of social injustice to enable improvements in social justice for all.

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 Rotherham and surrounding areas.

Area of benefit: ROTHERHAM METROPOLITAN BOROUGH

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 · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £33,014 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total funds. However, unrestricted reserves stood at £439,683, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of three months' expenditure (£352,478). The auditors confirmed the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Landin Wilcock & Co. 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
• 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 Rotherham and District (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Duncan Gall — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Celia Cashman — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Jamie Ashton — Director of Business Development (source)
• Gemma Fells — Director of Strategic Services (source)
• Melanie Craw — Director of Finance & Resources (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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

• Celia Cashmanchair
• Anthony Griffin
• Eleanor Dearle
• Emma Louise Kaye
• Krishna Harish
• Lisa Hogg

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

Operates in: Barnsley · Doncaster · Rotherham · Sheffield City

Income and spending

Common questions

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 1066.

• CITIZENS ADVICE 1066 income £1.4m
• RHONDDA CYNON TAFF CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £3.1m
• BIRMINGHAM CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU SERVICE LTD income £2.2m
• CITIZENS ADVICE DONCASTER BOROUGH income £1.9m
• NOTTINGHAM AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.8m
• WREXHAM AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £714k

Side by side with its peers

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