CITIZENS ADVICE COLCHESTER

Registered charity 1097252 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COLCHESTER CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

Provision of free, confidential, impartial and independent advice and information for the benefit of the local community.

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 without limitation, for the benefit of the community in Colchester and surrounding areas.

Area of benefit: THE BOROUGH OF COLCHESTER 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 · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £135,156 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total reserves from £299,034 to £163,878. The trustees note that maintaining sufficient funding remains a continual challenge due to increased demand and rising costs, though they maintain adequate resources for going concern purposes.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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
• 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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Cameron Banks Murray
• Kimberly Cullen
• Lanston Don Ramsay
• Louisa Clare Tippett · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stephen Richard Ede
• Thomas Michael Alasdair Kerr

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

Operates in: Essex

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 MID SUFFOLK CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU.

• MID SUFFOLK CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £332k
• Citizens Advice Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole income £1.4m
• CITIZENS ADVICE SWANSEA NEATH PORT TALBOT LIMITED income £1.4m
• BATH AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £996k
• NORFOLK CITIZENS ADVICE income £1.9m
• CAMBRIDGE AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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