CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU IN SWALE

Registered charity 1103010 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The provision of free, confidential, independent and impartial advice services to the people of Swale.

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 SWALE AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

Area of benefit: SWALE, KENT 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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £101,572 and unrestricted reserves of £256,389, which meets its policy target of four months' operating expenditure. However, the trustees note that traditional funding sources are becoming increasingly uncertain and the majority of grants are due to expire by March 2026, creating a dependency on securing future funding.

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.

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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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 — Citizens Advice Swale (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title 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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/03/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Pam Kenworthychair
• Drew Cullen
• Elliott Jayes · trustee of 2 other charities
• Hannah Edwards
• Katie Gough

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 CITIZENS ADVICE SWANSEA NEATH PORT TALBOT LIMITED.

• CITIZENS ADVICE SWANSEA NEATH PORT TALBOT LIMITED income £1.4m
• SOUTHWARK CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX SERVICE income £2.1m
• SWINDON AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £961k
• CITIZENS ADVICE IN WEST SUSSEX (NORTH, SOUTH, EAST) income £2.7m
• MID SUFFOLK CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £332k
• SCUNTHORPE AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

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