RUTLAND CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

Registered charity 1107907 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Rutland Citizens Advice Bureau helps people resolve their legal, money and other problems by providing information and advice, and by influencing policymakers.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · 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 ended the year with a small deficit of £3,612, having begun with a planned budgetary deficit of £61,515. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £183,507, which is above the stated policy target of £125,000 and would cover approximately nine months of operational costs. The trustees note that the charity is dependent on a small number of fund sources and face uncertainty regarding future funding from Rutland County Council.

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Rutland Citizens Advice (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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: 5.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Elizabeth Cooperchair
• Barbara Coulson
• Christopher Charles Mortlock · trustee of 1 other charity
• Margaret Susan Jarron
• Nicola Bateman
• Richard Gill

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

Operates in: Rutland

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).