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.

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

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.

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 7.0 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 (2.9%) (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
• Xin Austin

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

Common questions

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).