CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU TENDRING

Registered charity 1091777 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CAB TENDRING

Citizens' Advice Service based in Clacton on Sea Essex. We provide free, confidential and independent advice to our local community, whomever they may be, whatever problems they face.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held total reserves of £595,522, with available unrestricted reserves of £257,691, which the trustees confirmed remained in excess of their policy and Charity Commission recommendations. Per the trustees' report, the organization faces medium-term financial risks due to a reduction in grant funding following a transition to a competitive procurement process, but these are considered manageable within existing resources.

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04345160

Funders the charity credits

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

• National Lottery Community Fund — “Citizens Advice Tendring is supported by the National Lottery Community Fund.” (source page)
• The Police, Crime & Fire Commissioner — “Our Mental Health Hub Funders The Police, Crime & Fire Commissioner” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• RORKE, Nigel — director, appointed 16/07/2026on trustee list
• PARSONS, Tonia — director, appointed 13/07/2023on trustee list
• ALDRIDGE, Richard Paul — director, appointed 14/09/2022on trustee list
• GRAY, Stephen — director, appointed 26/11/2017on trustee list
• WHITFIELD, Christopher Douglas Granville — director, appointed 26/11/2017on trustee list
• GRAY, Stephen — secretary, appointed 03/06/2020

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £400k. 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 ~4.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (90% 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).

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTOPHER WHITFIELD
• Nigel Rorke
• Richard Aldridge
• STEPHEN GRAY
• Tonia Parsons · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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