HULL AND EAST RIDING CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU LTD

Registered charity 1106453 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EAST YORKSHIRE CAB, EAST YORKSHIRE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU LTD

PROVIDES FREE, CONFIDENTIAL, AND INDEPENDENT INFORMATION,ADVICE, ADVOCACY AND REPRESENTATION TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC. ALSO EXERCISES A RESPONSIBLE INFLUENCE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF LOCAL AND NATIONAL POLICIES.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£3.7m

Latest spending

£3.5m

Registered

2004

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £182,536 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total incoming resources of £3,683,337 against expenditure of £3,500,801. Unrestricted free reserves stood at £1,292,608, which the trustees confirmed equated to 4.4 months of total operating expenditure. The auditors confirmed the accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £60,001 - £70,000 — below the median for charities its size (£70k)

“1 employee has employee benefits between £60,000 and £70,000 in the year” — page 41

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Employees paid over £60,000: 1

“1 employee has employee benefits between £60,000 and £70,000 in the year (2024: 1)” — page 41

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: 3 to 6 months operating costs (held: £1.3m)

“Trustees consider that it is prudent to set aside Reserves within a range of 3 to 6 months operating costs which is reviewed annually.” — page 26

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Smailes Goldie. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Citizens Advice Hull and East Riding (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Tracy Wharvell — Chief Executive Officer (source)
Lucy Riley — Chairperson (source)
John Connelly — Head of Business Operations and Planning (source)
Kirsty Connor — Head of Specialist Advice Services (source)
Katherine Nickolds — Head of Generalist Advice Services (source)
Stacey Ullyott — Head of Business Development (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

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

Total income

£3.7m

Total spending

£3.5m

Reserves (reported)

£1.3m

Employees

115

Reported reserves equal ~4.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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 (13/04/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Transferred assets to another charity (03/04/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Adam David Ledger
Andrew Severn
David William Smith
Ireneous Ngmenlanaa Soyiri
Lucy Riley

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

Operates in: East Riding Of Yorkshire · Kingston Upon Hull City

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£3.7m	£3.5m
31/03/2024	£3.4m	£3.1m
31/03/2023	£3.1m	£2.9m
31/03/2022	£3.2m	£3.1m
31/03/2021	£3.2m	£3.0m

Common questions

Is HULL AND EAST RIDING CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU LTD financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The charity reported a surplus of £182,536 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total incoming resources of £3,683,337 against expenditure of £3,500,801. Unrestricted free reserves stood at £1,292,608, which the trustees confirmed equated to 4.4 months of total operating expenditure. The auditors confirmed the accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Smailes Goldie.

What does the highest-paid employee of HULL AND EAST RIDING CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU LTD earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £60,001 - £70,000 band, and 1 employees earned over £60,000.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	19/10/2018	£269k	Community Connect
The National Lottery Community Fund	03/03/2016	£750k	The Breakthrough project
The National Lottery Community Fund	02/08/2012	£993k	Quids in - getting the best from your money
The National Lottery Community Fund	15/03/2006	£2k	There is no project name available for this record
The National Lottery Community Fund	17/08/2005	£55k	Transfer of MK/1/010077578

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE MARTIN SMITH FOUNDATION	1	£57k
COLEFAX CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£23k
THE RIX-THOMPSON-ROTHENBERG FOUNDATION	1	£6k
GERALD PALMER ELING TRUST COMPANY	1	£5k
MISS W E LAWRENCE 1973 CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT	1	£4k
Friends of the Nations' Libraries	1	£4k
THE GEOFF & FIONA SQUIRE FOUNDATION	1	£3k
THE OUSELEY CHURCH MUSIC TRUST	1	£2k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BARNSLEY AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU.

BARNSLEY AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.0m
WEST BERKSHIRE MENCAP income £3.9m
NORTHUMBRIA HEALTH CARE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE TRUST CHARITY income £2.4m
THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST IN OXFORD OF THE FOUNDATION OF KING HENRY VIII income £50.0m
THE COTE CHARITY income £3.3m
HARINGEY CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
HULL AND EAST RIDING CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU LTD	£3.7m	£60,001 - £70,000	1	within	—	no doubt
BARNSLEY AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU FY2025	£1.0m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
WEST BERKSHIRE MENCAP FY2025	£3.9m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
NORTHUMBRIA HEALTH CARE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE TRUST CHARITY FY2025	£2.4m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST IN OXFORD OF THE FOUNDATION OF KING HENRY VIII FY2025	£50.0m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE COTE CHARITY FY2025	£3.3m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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