NORTH LANCASHIRE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU
Registered charity 1137309 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NORTH LANCASHIRE CAB
We are an independent charity that provides advice on a wide range of issues important to the community. We provide a completely free, independent and confidential service and ensure that everyone is treated impartially. We work hard to ensure that our help is available to those who need it across the full range of legal issues.
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £48,745 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income rising to £1,106,234 from £875,450 in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £404,700, which the trustees consider adequate in line with their policy of maintaining three months of operating costs. The independent auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified 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: three months operating costs (held: £405k)
“The trustee Board has agreed an unrestricted reserves policy equal to three months operating costs which would enable the Charity to facilitate an orderly wind-down process in the event one was required.” — page 6
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by MHA. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Citizens Advice North Lancashire (matched by registered charity number).
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Joanna Young — Chief Executive Officer (source)
- Gully Trevena — Advice Services Director (source)
- Helen Bingley OBE — 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.
- LORBIECKI, Anna — director, appointed 25/05/2025on trustee list
- WILSON, Joshua — director, appointed 25/05/2025on trustee list
- STUBBINS, Paul — director, appointed 28/11/2023on trustee list
- DALTON, Jane — director, appointed 28/11/2023on trustee list
- COOKSON-RABOUHI, Louiza Houria — director, appointed 05/09/2023not on trustee list
- SIMMONS, Ross Harry — director, appointed 05/09/2023on trustee list
- HANNA, Christopher — director, appointed 28/09/2018on trustee list
Official officers record.
Property (HM Land Registry)
1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 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 31/03/2026)
Reported reserves equal ~5.1 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).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (12/07/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (12/07/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Anna Lorbiecki
- Christopher Hanna · trustee of 2 other charities
- Jane Dalton
- Joshua Wilson
- Louiza Houria Cookson Rabouhi
- Paul Stubbins
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Lancashire
Income and spending
Common questions
Is NORTH LANCASHIRE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £48,745 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income rising to £1,106,234 from £875,450 in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £404,700, which the trustees consider adequate in line with their policy of maintaining three months of operating costs. The independent auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by MHA.
Who funds NORTH LANCASHIRE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU?
Funders whose own accounts filings name NORTH LANCASHIRE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU as a grant recipient include THE ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOUNDATION.
Known funders
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