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.

Objects

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS (‘OBJECTS’) ARE SPECIFICALLY: 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 PARTICULAR, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN WATFORD AND SURROUNDING AREAS

Area of benefit: WATFORD.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

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

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• 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
• Volunteer management

Funders the charity credits

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

• Watford Borough Council — “We are particularly grateful to Watford Borough Council whose grant is critical to the provision of our advice services to the community of …” (source page)

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

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

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (53% 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: 1.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Annalisa Buraglio
• Berkiye Ozturk · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher Stanley Constant
• Councillor Jennifer Pattinson
• Frank Neale
• KEITH DAVID HOLMES
• Kennedy Rodrigues
• Kirstie Caneparo
• Leena Nagrecha
• Richard Andrew Boulton
• Suzannah Claire Trivedi

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• WATFORD WOMEN'S CENTRE income £575k
• CITIZENS ADVICE WALTHAM FOREST LTD income £1.3m
• TORFAEN CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £2.0m
• CITIZENS ADVICE 1066 income £1.4m
• BRIDGEND COUNTY BOROUGH CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.1m
• LEWES DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £521k

Side by side with its peers

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