CITIZENS UK CHARITY

Registered charity 1107264 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CITIZENS UK, THE CITIZEN ORGANISING FOUNDATION

Citizens UK is the home of Community Organising. We support a growing network of broad based Citizens Organisations which include faith, education and voluntary associations and institutions that work together for the common good. We also support a Guild of Community Organisers and the Centre for Civil Society.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £682,578 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total reserves of £3,302,437. The trustees note that the present levels of undesignated unrestricted funds are generally in-line with their target level, and the auditor confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the entity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Auditco Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — CITIZENS UK (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• The National Lottery Community Fund — “Citizens UK receives funding from The National Lottery Community Fund’s Solidarity Fund to build the power of communities” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (48% 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: 7.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Canon Karen Sheila Frances Roomschair
• Adrian Farnham
• Anna Aleksandrowicz
• Brandon Akem
• Dr Mahera Ruby · trustee of 2 other charities
• Elizabeth Sarah Todd
• James David Pickering
• Kelly Joiner
• LINDSAY JANE DRISCOLL · trustee of 2 other charities
• Noeleen Cohen · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sheikh Nuru Mohammed
• Stuart Wright
• Yahye Abdi

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 CENTRE FOR THEOLOGY AND COMMUNITY LIMITED.

• CENTRE FOR THEOLOGY AND COMMUNITY LIMITED income £680k
• UK COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS income £11.3m
• CITY TO CITY UK income £377k
• YOUR VOICE IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE income £1.2m
• COMMUNITY ORGANISERS LIMITED income £454k
• THE CITIZENSHIP FOUNDATION income £715k

Side by side with its peers

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