CITIZENS ADVICE SOLIHULL BOROUGH LTD

Registered charity 1141020 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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 Solihull 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 OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS IN PARTICULAR, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN SOLIHULL AND SURROUNDING AREAS

Area of benefit: SOLIHULL AND SURROUNDING AREAS

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: Solihull, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £101,822 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £264,737 against expenditure of £366,559. The trustees note that securing sustainable funding remains a significant challenge and a key risk to long-term viability, though they maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue operating on a going concern basis.

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
• 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 19/02/2024, 19 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/03/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (29/01/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANN MARGARET HUNTER
• Bernadette Frances New
• Charles Benedict Fillingham
• Daniel Bliss
• Lynsey Jane Kitching
• Marcus Brain · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ophelia Kainth
• Sean Rudolph

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

Operates in: Solihull

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• CITIZENS ADVICE HILLINGDON LTD income £682k
• SOUTHAMPTON CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.7m
• CITIZENS ADVICE LIVERPOOL LIMITED income £4.3m
• CITIZENS ADVICE LEICESTERSHIRE income £1.7m
• CITIZENS ADVICE SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE income £964k
• SUTTON BOROUGH VOLUNTEER BUREAU income £1.0m

Side by side with its peers

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