WATFORD CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

Registered charity 1109872 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Advice & assistance with legal problems, debt and consumer issues, benefits, housing, legal matters, employment and immigration issues.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£615k
Latest spending
£592k
Registered
2005
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £23,243 for the year, with unrestricted reserves of £388,496 held at year-end. This figure exceeds the trustees' stated prudent target of six months' operating expenditure, which equates to £295,844. The charity maintains adequate cash resources and reports no material uncertainties regarding its 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

Reserves policy: six months of operating expenditure (held: £388k)
The Trustees consider that it would be prudent to set aside at least 6 months of operating expenditure; during the year ending 31 March 2025 this equates to £295,844 — page 8
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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

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

Total income
£615k
Total spending
£592k
Cost of raising funds
£9k
Reserves (reported)
£446k
Employees
19

Reported reserves equal ~9.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£615k£592k
31/03/2024£616k£576k
31/03/2023£514k£483k
31/03/2022£447k£442k
31/03/2021£560k£424k

Common questions

Is WATFORD CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £23,243 for the year, with unrestricted reserves of £388,496 held at year-end. This figure exceeds the trustees' stated prudent target of six months' operating expenditure, which equates to £295,844. The charity maintains adequate cash resources and reports no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund26/01/2024£20kEnhance - 2024 Training Project
The National Lottery Community Fund22/05/2020£10kCitizens Advice Watford Advice at Home Project
The National Lottery Community Fund21/03/2019£10kVolunteer Training Programme
The National Lottery Community Fund28/02/2013£10kImproving Advice Delivery through technology
The National Lottery Community Fund18/04/2008£7kIncreasing Access To Advice
The National Lottery Community Fund18/01/2006£23kProvide interpreters for deaf people and those from Pakistan
The National Lottery Community Fund13/07/2005£8kProvide interpreters for deaf people and those from Pakistan
The National Lottery Community Fund20/05/2004£5kA specialist money advice outreach service

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
THE SUSSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION1£10k

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WATFORD WOMEN'S CENTRE.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
WATFORD CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU£615k0unclearno doubt
WATFORD WOMEN'S CENTRE FY2025£575k0unclearno doubt
CITIZENS ADVICE WALTHAM FOREST LTD FY2025£1.3m£60,001 - £70,0001aboveno doubt
TORFAEN CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU FY2025£2.0m0aboveno doubt
CITIZENS ADVICE 1066 FY2025£1.4m0aboveno doubt
BRIDGEND COUNTY BOROUGH CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU FY2025£1.1m0belowno doubt

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