CITIZENS ADVICE SURREY HEATH

Registered charity 1118181 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CAMBERLEY CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

The charityÔÇÖs objects are to promote any charitable purpose for the benefit of the community in Surrey Heath, by the advancement of education, the protection and preservation of health and the relief of poverty, sickness and distress.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE BOROUGH OF SURREY HEATH 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: THE BOROUGH OF SURREY HEATH AND THE 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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Registered contact address: Surrey Heath, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £63,786 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total incoming resources of £496,660. Unrestricted reserves stood at £316,535, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet the stated policy target of 6 to 9 months of normal operating expenditure. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06058583

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Citizens Advice Surrey Heath (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• DRISCOLL, Gillian Margaret — director, appointed 24/08/2026on trustee list
• MOREY, Colin David — director, appointed 11/10/2025on trustee list
• CUTLER, James Robert Edwin — director, appointed 28/06/2025on trustee list
• BRUNEL-COHEN, Edward Stuart — director, appointed 11/11/2024on trustee list
• DABROWSKI, Lois Elizabeth — director, appointed 23/08/2021on trustee list
• SCOTT, Gregory James — director, appointed 18/05/2020not on trustee list
• PARK, Marion Ann — director, appointed 04/12/2017on trustee list
• DOWNEY, Nigel Alexander — director, appointed 13/09/2010on trustee list
• DRISCOLL, Gillian Margaret — secretary, appointed 24/08/2026

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/02/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Greg Scottchair
• Colin Morey
• Edward Brunel-Cohen
• Gillian Driscoll
• James Cutler
• Lois Elizabeth Dabrowski
• Marion Park
• NIGEL ALEXANDER DOWNEY

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

Operates in: Surrey

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 SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE.

• CITIZENS ADVICE SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE income £964k
• CITIZENS ADVICE LIVERPOOL LIMITED income £4.3m
• CITIZENS ADVICE LEICESTERSHIRE income £1.7m
• CITIZENS ADVICE MANCHESTER income £8.3m
• CITIZENS ADVICE IN WEST SUSSEX (NORTH, SOUTH, EAST) income £2.7m
• CITIZENS ADVICE SOUTH WARWICKSHIRE income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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