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
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
- Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).
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)
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).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (25/06/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (10/01/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- CAROL BURNSchair
- Alex Ross
- Anthony Book
- Edgar Muzvidzwa · trustee of 1 other charity
- Ian Morris Bretman
- Leslie Buckett
- Mike Jones
- Nicholas Johnson
- Nick Clay
- Rita Protopapa · trustee of 1 other charity
- Xia Yang
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: West Sussex
Income and spending
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
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