DERBYSHIRE DISTRICTS CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

Registered charity 1094369 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DERBYSHIRE DALES, AMBER VALLEY & EREWASH CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU LIMITED, MID-DERBYSHIRE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

Citizens Advice Derbyshire Districts provides free, impartial and confidential advice to people living in Amber Valley, Derbyshire Dales, Erewash, High Peak and surrounding areas to help them deal with the problems they face, and help to improve the policies and practices that affect people's lives.

Objects

The charity’s objects (‘Objects’) are specifically: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 not limited to, for the benefit of the community in Amber Valley, Derbyshire Dales, Erewash, High Peak and surrounding areas.

Area of benefit: THE COMMUNITY IN DERBYSHIRE DALES AND AMBER VALLEY 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 surplus of £381,270 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven largely by the transfer of net assets from the merged Chesterfield Citizens Advice Bureau. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £1,209,256, exceeding the stated policy target of £1,000,000, and the charity maintains a strong cash position of £1,410,019. The trustees and auditors confirm the organization is a going concern with sufficient resources to continue operations for at least 12 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MCABA Limited t/a Mitchells. Discloses 3 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

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 ~3.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/08/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/08/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dorcas Louisa Iris Sutherland Buntonchair
• Ian Garnet Ford · trustee of 1 other charity
• Julie Hirst
• Lesley Singleton
• Nathan Daniel Pevy
• Nigel Lawrence Smith
• Patricia Mary Coleman · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter Andrew Johns
• Sally Kendall
• Sally Patricia MacIntyre
• Terri Margaret Jones
• Thomas Clifford Jack Fletcher

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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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 North East Derbyshire.

• Citizens Advice North East Derbyshire income £907k
• DERBYSHIRE DALES COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £404k
• AGE UK DERBY & DERBYSHIRE income £2.0m
• CITIZENS ADVICE DONCASTER BOROUGH income £1.9m
• THE BASSETLAW CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.4m
• CROSSROADS DERBYSHIRE income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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