WEST BERKSHIRE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

Registered charity 1115036 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provide information and advice on a range of topics including benefits, employment, debt, housing, relationships, education, legal and consumer issues to the residents of West Berkshire.Provide consumer education and support with money management skills.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN WEST BERKSHIRE AND SURROUNDING AREAS ("THE AREA OF BENEFIT") BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS.

Area of benefit: WEST BERKSHIRE

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £278,171 are above the trustees' policy target of six months' expenditure. The charity reported a net deficit of £17,688 for the year, which was lower than the budgeted deficit, and the trustees consider the charity to be a going concern with adequate resources.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andy White
• Arj Arul
• Claire Rowles · trustee of 1 other charity
• Elizabeth OKeeffe
• Harry James
• Iain David Cottingham · trustee of 1 other charity
• Julie Dann
• Luis Miguel Iglesias Fernandez
• Michael Anthony Fernandes
• Paul John Masters
• Philip Jeremy Cowhig
• Sarah Foot

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

Operates in: West Berkshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CITIZENS ADVICE EAST BERKSHIRE LIMITED.

• CITIZENS ADVICE EAST BERKSHIRE LIMITED income £824k
• Citizens Advice West Northamptonshire and Cherwell income £2.1m
• BRIDGEND COUNTY BOROUGH CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.1m
• CITIZENS ADVICE IN WEST SUSSEX (NORTH, SOUTH, EAST) income £2.7m
• WILTSHIRE CITIZENS ADVICE income £1.6m
• CITIZENS ADVICE IN NORTH & WEST KENT income £2.1m

Side by side with its peers

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