NORTH AND WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE CITIZENS ADVICE

Registered charity 1091891 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FODCAB, FOREST OF DEAN CAB, FOREST OF DEAN CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

To provide a generalist advice service to the population of the district of The Forest of Dean, ensuring that individuals do not suffer through lack of knowledge of their rights and responsibilities, or of the needs of services available to them, or through an inability to express their needs effectively and to exercise a responsible influence on the development of Social Policy.

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 Gloucestershire and surrounding areas.

Area of benefit: THE COMMUNITY IN THE FOREST OF DEAN 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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £126,267 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds decreasing to £697,727. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves of £591,408 remain above the stated policy target of £374k (three months of operating costs). The trustees consider the charity to be a going concern based on budget forecasts for the following year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Burnside Chartered Accountants. 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
• 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 — North and West Gloucestershire Citizens Advice (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles 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.

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

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 (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

• AHMED SAID HANSDOT · trustee of 1 other charity
• Catherine Mary Andrews
• Diana Louise Billingham
• Emily Joan Hutchinson
• Michael Mintram
• Peter Edward Whittall
• Sara Devi Earnshaw
• Stephen Brimfield

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

Common questions

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WYRE FOREST CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU.

• WYRE FOREST CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £410k
• DISS, THETFORD AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £733k
• CAMBRIDGE AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.4m
• SUTTON BOROUGH CITIZENS' ADVICE BUREAUX income £1.9m
• Citizens Advice Mid Mercia income £5.1m
• SOUTHWARK CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX SERVICE income £2.1m

Side by side with its peers

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