Citizens Advice East Suffolk

Registered charity 1115522 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NORTH EAST SUFFOLK ADVICE, NORTH EAST SUFFOLK CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

Provides advice, information and representations to members of the public on a range of legal matters, including debt, welfare benefits, housing, employment, consumer, education, health, immigration and nationality, family and relationships, to the public across East Suffolk, face-to-face (from 5 permanent offices and multiple outreaches), and by telephone and e-mail.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £17,619 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £1,164,487 and expenditure of £1,146,868. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of £514,607 are held in excess of the revised policy target of £370,000, which the trustees believe is prudent to mitigate risks associated with future funding uncertainty.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cunninghams, Statutory Auditor. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Citizens Advice East Suffolk (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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (60% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (05/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Clare Simkin
• Jonathan Philip Mason-Gordon
• Philip Maturin Davy
• Richard Thomas McLeod
• Timothy Rowan-Robinson
• lydia keeble
• robert wilkerson

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Citizens Advice East Lancashire.

• Citizens Advice East Lancashire income £1.7m
• Citizens Advice Braintree & South Essex Limited income £1.5m
• CITIZENS ADVICE IN WEST SUSSEX (NORTH, SOUTH, EAST) income £2.7m
• IPSWICH AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £952k
• MID SUFFOLK CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £332k
• CITIZENS ADVICE IN NORTH & WEST KENT income £2.1m

Side by side with its peers

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