CITIZENS ADVICE REIGATE AND BANSTEAD LIMITED

Registered charity 1104970 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CITIZENS ADVICE REIGATE AND BANSTEAD, REIGATE AND BANSTEAD DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU, REIGATE AND BANSTEAD DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX

To provide free, impartial and confidential advice and information to all members of the local community in the Borough of Reigate and Banstead and the surrounding areas. To advance knowledge and information for the protection and preservation of health, and the relief of poverty, sickness and distress.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN REIGATE AND BANSTEAD AND SURROUNDING AREAS ("THE AREA OF BENEFIT") BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS.

Area of benefit: IN [REIGATE AND BANSTEAD] 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 · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Reigate and Banstead, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £20,580 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £295,923. Per the trustees' report, these unrestricted reserves are above the stated policy target of three months of operating expenditure. The trustees confirm the charity is prepared on a going-concern basis, citing secured core funding and commitments from other sources.

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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 01/02/2022, 1 day after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Aviva Communities Fund — “Our fundraising campaign ‘Helping people to build financial resilience’ is being run with support from the Aviva Communities Fund.” (source page)
• The Netherby Trust — “Also thank you to The Netherby Trust and NHS Charities Together Workforce Wellbeing Programme.” (source page)
• NHS Charities Together Workforce Wellbeing Programme — “Also thank you to The Netherby Trust and NHS Charities Together Workforce Wellbeing Programme.” (source page)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~4.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 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 (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/05/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/02/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Wilson
• David John Woodley
• GEOFFREY LESLIE ANDERSON
• Odile Hounkpatin
• STEPHEN FREDERICK JEBSON

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CITIZENS ADVICE HILLINGDON LTD.

• CITIZENS ADVICE HILLINGDON LTD income £682k
• TAMESIDE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU LTD income £467k
• CITIZENS ADVICE COLCHESTER income £294k
• ROTHERHAM & DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.4m
• CITIZENS ADVICE GATESHEAD income £7.2m
• CITIZENS ADVICE EAST BERKSHIRE LIMITED income £824k

Side by side with its peers

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