HALTON CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU
Registered charity 1118300 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CITIZENS ADVICE HALTON
Halton Citizens Advice Bureau service provides free, independent, confidential and impartial advice to everyone on their rights and responsibilities. It values diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination.The service aims: * To provide the advice people need for the problems they face * To improve the policies and practices that affect people's lives.
Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £36,588 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds decreasing to £899,422 from £936,010 the previous year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £724,573, which the Board considers adequate to meet its policy target of holding six months of anticipated running costs (£594k). The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: 5-6 months operating costs (held: £725k)
“Taking all these factors into account trustees have historically aimed to maintain a reserves fund of 5-6 months operating costs.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Note 23
“There were related party transactions between Citizens Advice Halton and Citizens Advice (National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux) during the year. The charity paid £14,656 to Citizens Advice in membership fees and to cover the cost of insurance, financial support, and information services (2024: £14,999). As at the year, an amount of £1,200 was due by the charity to Citizens Advice (2024: £960).” — page 48
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by AGP Chartered Accountants. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
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Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Hitesh N. Patel — Chief Executive (source)
- Claire Pentin — Chair of Trustees (source)
- Geoff Hawker — Vice Chair (source)
- John Doyle — Treasurer (source)
Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.
Property (HM Land Registry)
2 registered titles 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 ~8.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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).
- Claire Pentinchair
- Amber Cairns
- Anita Cawley · trustee of 2 other charities
- Anne-Marie Atherton
- Geoffrey Michael Hawker
- Isabelle Shankar
- John Jospeh Doyle
- Nicholas Hill
- Peter Lloyd-Jones
- Peter Lunio
- Stacey Shmygol
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Halton
Income and spending
Common questions
Is HALTON CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £36,588 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds decreasing to £899,422 from £936,010 the previous year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £724,573, which the Board considers adequate to meet its policy target of holding six months of anticipated running costs (£594k). The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by AGP Chartered Accountants.
Who funds HALTON CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU?
Funders whose own accounts filings name HALTON CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU as a grant recipient include UNITED UTILITIES TRUST FUND, HOUSING THE HOMELESS CENTRAL FUND.
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