CITIZENS ADVICE HAMPSHIRE
Registered charity 1122695 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register
Citizens Advice Hampshire acts as a consortium of all Citizens Advice Bureaux in Hampshire, Portsmouth and Isle of Wight. It works to build the capacity of the service, develop new services that meet client needs and works to improve the impact of the service by promotion, networking and social policy campaigning
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported an unrestricted net surplus of £45,254 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted reserves increasing to £302,497. The trustees note that the charity is dependent on grants and contracts, with the main financial risk being the loss of funding, but confirm there are no borrowings and cash reserves are held across multiple banks.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: three months forward anticipated operating costs together with project closure costs (held: £302k)
“It has been set at levels to cover three months forward anticipated operating costs together with project closure costs to allow for any discontinuance of commitments.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by MC Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Biddy Mayo — Chief Executive Officer (source)
- Robert Sweatman — Chair (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.
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.
- JENKINS, Richard Mark — director, appointed 27/11/2025on trustee list
- SWEATMAN, Robert Clive — director, appointed 16/09/2025on trustee list
- PHILLIPS, Oliver — director, appointed 27/02/2025on trustee list
- PARK, Tanya-Jayne — director, appointed 26/02/2025on trustee list
- MACKAY, James Richard — director, appointed 19/08/2024on trustee list
- DOWNES, Thomas Antony, Professor — director, appointed 29/03/2022on trustee list
- SWEATMAN, Robert Clive — secretary, appointed 16/09/2025
Official officers record.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (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).
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Hampshire · Isle Of Wight · Portsmouth City · Southampton City · Surrey
Income and spending
Common questions
Is CITIZENS ADVICE HAMPSHIRE financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported an unrestricted net surplus of £45,254 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted reserves increasing to £302,497. The trustees note that the charity is dependent on grants and contracts, with the main financial risk being the loss of funding, but confirm there are no borrowings and cash reserves are held across multiple banks. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by MC Audit Limited.
Government & lottery funding
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