CARLISLE AND EDEN DISTRICTS CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

Registered charity 1111024 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CARLISLE AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

The charity provides free, independent, confidential and impartial advice to everyone within the districts of Carlisle and Eden and the surrounding areas on their rights and responsibilities.

Objects

Objects4. 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 Carlisle and Eden districts and surrounding areas.

Area of benefit: CARLISLE AND DISTRICT AND SURROUNDING AREAS

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £733,995 exceed the trustees' stated prudent target of eight months' operational expenditure (£637,835). The charity reports no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern, although trustees note ongoing financial uncertainty due to funding short-termism and inflation.

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 fundraising profile: JustGiving — Carlisle & Eden Districts Citizens Advice Bureau (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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 (97% 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).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/07/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Abernethy
• Andrew John Setters
• Christine Weaving
• Cllr Jeanette Maria Whalen · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jane Vickers
• Katie Feltham
• Paul Forster
• Stephen Peter Smith · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cumbria

Income and spending

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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 IPSWICH AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU.

• IPSWICH AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £952k
• CITIZENS ADVICE ALLERDALE income £661k
• CITIZENS ADVICE GATESHEAD income £7.2m
• Carer Support Eden income £542k
• Citizens Advice East Lancashire income £1.7m
• CITIZENS ADVICE 1066 income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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