STOCKTON AND DISTRICT ADVICE AND INFORMATION SERVICE

Registered charity 1105391 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as STOCKTON CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU STOCKTON CAB

PROVISION OF FREE, CONFIDENTIAL, INDEPENDENT AND IMPARTIAL ADVICE, INFORMATION AND COUNSEL FOR MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.

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 PARTICULARLY, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN STOCKTON-ON-TEES AND SURROUNDING AREAS

Area of benefit: (SEE OBJECTS)

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £24,910 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £1,563,754 and net assets increasing to £561,750. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of £440,412 are maintained within the stated policy target of 3 to 6 months of expenditure, and the auditor confirmed no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Allen Sykes Limited. 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
• Investment
• 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

What the charity says about itself (2024-25)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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

• Jennifer Hagan
• Jonathan Carling
• Stuart Basford
• Susan Symmonds
• Thomas Fred Gittins

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

Operates in: Throughout England

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 SCUNTHORPE AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU.

• SCUNTHORPE AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.8m
• STEVENAGE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £2.3m
• RUSHMOOR CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX income £1.3m
• DIAL BARNSLEY income £538k
• FULL FACT income £2.9m
• CAMDEN CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX SERVICE LIMITED income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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