CITIZENS ADVICE LEICESTERSHIRE

Registered charity 1135081 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LEICESTERSHIRE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU, LEICESTERSHIRE CITIZENS ADVICEBUREAU, S&WLCAB, SOUTH AND WEST LEICESTERSHIRE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

The Charity's objects are to promote any charitable purpose for the public benefit by the advancement of education, the protection and preservation of health and the relief of poverty, sickness and distress in particular, but without limitation, for the benefit of the community in Leicestershire and surrounding areas.

Objects

The Charity’s objects are to promote any charitable purpose for the public benefit by the advancement of education, the protection and preservation of health and the relief of poverty, sickness and distress in particular, but without limitation, for the benefit of the community in Leicestershire, Leicester City and surrounding areas.

Area of benefit: SOUTH AND WEST LEICESTERSHIRE

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: Rushcliffe, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £188,936 for the year, which the trustees describe as a strategic investment in organisational transformation. Despite this deficit, the charity maintains unrestricted reserves of £439,374, which it considers sufficient to meet its policy target of three to six months of expenditure. The trustees and auditors confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Xeinadin Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

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

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/04/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Emily Mary Beach
• JOHN WALTERS
• Marie-Anne Beere
• NARENDRA WAGHELA · trustee of 2 other charities
• Peter Symonds
• Sarah Humphreys

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

Operates in: Leicester City · Leicestershire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CITIZENS ADVICE LINCOLNSHIRE.

• CITIZENS ADVICE LINCOLNSHIRE income £314k
• CITIZENS ADVICE SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE income £964k
• CITIZENS ADVICE LIVERPOOL LIMITED income £4.3m
• CITIZENS ADVICE SERVICE IN THE BOROUGH OF WIGAN income £892k
• Citizens Advice Lincoln & Lindsey income £3.5m
• CITIZENS ADVICE MANCHESTER income £8.3m

Side by side with its peers

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