ST HELENS DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

Registered charity 1110382 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide independent, free, confidential and impartial advice to everybody regardless of race, gender, sexuality or disability.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£797k
Latest spending
£776k
Registered
2005
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased to £797,158 from £930,281 in the prior year, resulting in a small surplus of £20,835. The charity maintains unrestricted reserves of £226,333 alongside designated funds of £360,000, with the trustees noting that funding remains a major challenge.

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 4 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
£797k
Total spending
£776k
Reserves (reported)
£586k
Employees
22

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: St Helens

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£797k£776k
31/03/2024£930k£792k
31/03/2023£703k£670k
31/03/2022£660k£748k
31/03/2021£747k£776k

Common questions

Is ST HELENS DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total income decreased to £797,158 from £930,281 in the prior year, resulting in a small surplus of £20,835. The charity maintains unrestricted reserves of £226,333 alongside designated funds of £360,000, with the trustees noting that funding remains a major challenge. 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 Fund07/05/2020£10kCovid-19 Help at the heart of the St Helens community

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 HAVERING CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
ST HELENS DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU£797k0unclearno doubt
HAVERING CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX FY2025£1.1m0belowno doubt
HALTON CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU FY2025£1.2m0unclearno doubt
STEVENAGE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU FY2025£2.3m0unclearno doubt
CITIZENS ADVICE GATESHEAD FY2025£7.2mbelowno doubt
IPSWICH AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU FY2025£952k0belowno doubt

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