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.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT ( COMPRISING ST HELENS BOROUGH AND SURROUNDING BOROUGHS) BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS.

Area of benefit: ST HELENS BOROUGH AND SURROUNDING BOROUGHS.

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

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.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Investing charity funds 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

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 (93% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• John Curran
• Miguel Doforo · trustee of 1 other charity
• Pat ffrench
• Stephen William Connor
• Wayne Longshaw

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

Operates in: St Helens

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HAVERING CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX.

• HAVERING CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX income £1.1m
• HALTON CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.2m
• STEVENAGE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £2.3m
• CITIZENS ADVICE GATESHEAD income £7.2m
• IPSWICH AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £952k
• CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU IN SWALE income £531k

Side by side with its peers

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