WINCHESTER DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

Registered charity 1144965 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity provides, free, independent, confidential and impartial advice to everyone on their rights and responsibilities for the benefit of the community in Winchester district and surrounding areas. The service aims to provide the advice people need for the problems they face and to improve the policies and practices that affect people's lives.

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 WINCHESTER DISTRICT AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

Area of benefit: WINCHESTER CITY COUNCIL

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Winchester, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an overall deficit of £20,997 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a reduction of unrestricted reserves to £143,352. Per the trustees' report, these reserves represent approximately four and a half months of core expenditure, which is in line with the stated policy of three to six months. The trustees confirmed adequate resources for going concern and noted that the deficit was allowed for within the existing reserve levels.

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 4 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
• 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)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~5.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (85% 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: 5.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/04/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/09/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Philip James Youngchair
• Alison Sarah Martin
• Elizabeth Scoffin
• Jane Elizabeth Stone

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

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

• WARRINGTON DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £969k
• CAMBRIDGE AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.4m
• WEST BERKSHIRE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £307k
• DISS, THETFORD AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £733k
• WELWYN HATFIELD CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU LIMITED income £526k
• THE ESHER AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £272k

Side by side with its peers

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