CITIZENS ADVICE NEWCASTLE

Registered charity 1135396 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

Newcastle upon Tyne Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) provides free, confidential, independent and impartial advice to people who live and work in the City. It promotes any charitable purposes for the benefit of the community in the North East region of England by the advancement of education, the protection of health and the relief of poverty, sickness and distress.

Objects

FOR THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE NORTH EAST REGION OF ENGLAND BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS.

Area of benefit: NORTH EAST REGION OF ENGLAND

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Newcastle upon Tyne, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £39,678 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £825,052. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £560,803, which exceeds the stated policy target range of £205,000 to £410,000. The trustees consider the reserves position to be satisfactory and confirmed that the charity can continue to operate for the foreseeable future.

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
• 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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 Newcastle (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~9.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/06/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Suzanne Woodchair
• ANTHONY CRAWLEY
• Angela Carver
• David James Richardson
• Dilshan Nayoma Madahinnegedara
• Gillian Roll
• Jemima Short
• KEITH REED
• Kevin Lynch
• Rev David Tubby
• Stuart William Parker
• Tribe Mukwevho

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• NORTHUMBRIAN CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £5.0m
• THE NORTH TYNESIDE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £2.9m
• NORTH LANCASHIRE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.3m
• CITIZENS ADVICE DONCASTER BOROUGH income £1.9m
• THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX income £167.8m
• NORTH WARWICKSHIRE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £541k

Side by side with its peers

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