CITIZENS ADVICE IN WEST SUSSEX (NORTH, SOUTH, EAST)

Registered charity 1116660 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CENTRAL AND SOUTH SUSSEX CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU, CENTRAL SUSSEX CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU, HORSHAM AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

To provide the advice people need for the problems they face. To improve the policies and practices that affect peoples lives.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£2.7m
Latest spending
£2.7m
Registered
2006
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £62,869 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £2,716,179 against expenditure of £2,653,310. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £830,807, which the trustees assessed as being within their stated policy target of maintaining between three and six months' worth of annual expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £831k; policy: three- and six-months’ worth of annual expenditure)
“The general reserve of £830,807 represents 3.8 months of budgeted expenditure for 2025/26, which is within the reserves policy of between 4-6 months set by Trustees.” — page 13
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Richard Place Dobson Services Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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

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

Total income
£2.7m
Total spending
£2.7m
Reserves (reported)
£910k
Employees
72

Reported reserves equal ~4.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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).

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£2.7m£2.7m
31/03/2024£2.6m£2.5m
31/03/2023£2.3m£2.3m
31/03/2022£2.2m£1.9m
31/03/2021£1.8m£1.6m

Common questions

Is CITIZENS ADVICE IN WEST SUSSEX (NORTH, SOUTH, EAST) financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £62,869 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £2,716,179 against expenditure of £2,653,310. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £830,807, which the trustees assessed as being within their stated policy target of maintaining between three and six months' worth of annual expenditure. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Richard Place Dobson Services Limited.

Who funds CITIZENS ADVICE IN WEST SUSSEX (NORTH, SOUTH, EAST)?

Funders whose own accounts filings name CITIZENS ADVICE IN WEST SUSSEX (NORTH, SOUTH, EAST) as a grant recipient include THE SUSSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE SUSSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONFY2022£10k

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund19/12/2024£302kCrawley Connects
UK government01/04/2024£10kTransition to eVisa Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund01/10/2018£496kCrawley Connects
The National Lottery Community Fund03/09/2014£10kCaSSCAB Training and Development
The National Lottery Community Fund02/07/2009£2kLife is for Living

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 Citizens Advice South West Surrey.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
CITIZENS ADVICE IN WEST SUSSEX (NORTH, SOUTH, EAST)£2.7m—0below—no doubt
Citizens Advice South West Surrey FY2025£1.4m—0below—no doubt
CITIZENS ADVICE CENTRAL DORSET LIMITED FY2025£1.4m—0within—no doubt
CITIZENS ADVICE READING FY2025£957k—0within—no doubt
Citizens Advice Somerset FY2025£2.3m—0below—no doubt
SCUNTHORPE AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU FY2025£1.8m£60,001 - £70,0000unclear—no doubt

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