WARRINGTON DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

Registered charity 1145798 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CAB

The charity runs an independent community legal advice service for the residents of Warrington and the surrounding areas.The services are free, confidential and impartial. The Charity provides social welfare information, advice and casework catering to the public.

Objects

FOR THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN WARRINGTON AND DISTRICT BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY SICKNESS AND DISTRESS.

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: Warrington, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £18,777 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total incoming resources of £969,351. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stand at £478,520, which is above the stated policy target of £300,000. The trustees confirm the charity is in a stable position and prepared the accounts 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

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 03/06/2024, 124 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (66% 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 (07/02/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Kathryn Buckleychair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Benjamin James Saunders
• Carol Roberts
• Dorothy Anne Carter
• Ian Marks
• Jacqueline Wilson
• Jane Whalen
• MARTIN SIDEBOTTOM
• Mark Lyons
• Steven Cullen · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Warrington

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• WINCHESTER DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £457k
• STAFFORDSHIRE SOUTH WEST CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.5m
• WIRRAL CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU LIMITED income £3.2m
• HARLOW CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU LIMITED income £640k
• WATFORD CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £615k
• DUNSTABLE AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £230k

Side by side with its peers

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