North Yorkshire Citizens Advice & Law Centre Limited
Registered charity 1146084 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CITIZENS ADVICE HAMBLETON, RICHMOND & SELBY & DISTRICT, CITIZENS ADVICE MID-NORTH YORKSHIRE LIMITED, Citizens Advice North Yorkshire, HAMBLETON AND RICHMONDSHIRE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU, North Yorkshire Citizens Advice and Law Centre Limited
The twin aims of Citizens Advice North Yorkshire are 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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £29,907 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total incoming resources of £4,126,458 against total expenditure of £4,096,551. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds totalled £1,668,415, which is above the stated reserves policy target of £835,000 for three months of running costs. The independent auditor 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 running costs (held: £1.7m)
“In the event of total withdrawal of Local Authority funding the trustees consider that it would be prudent to set aside an amount equivalent to three months running costs based on forecast expenditure at Oct 24 when the Reserves Policy was updated a sum of £835,000.” — page 5
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by BK Plus Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
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.
- SHARP, Janet Elizabeth — director, appointed 17/12/2025on trustee list
- BEHRENS, Clive Owen John — director, appointed 15/12/2025on trustee list
- TATHAM, Karen — director, appointed 15/12/2025on trustee list
- RITCHIE, John — director, appointed 10/08/2022on trustee list
- GOODRICK, Caroline Grant — director, appointed 29/08/2018on trustee list
- PRINGLE, Robert — director, appointed 17/02/2016on trustee list
- LES, Carl Anthony — director, appointed 22/12/2011on trustee list
- SHREEVE, Carol Ann — secretary, appointed 01/02/2016
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.
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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 (15/02/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (29/12/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (31/05/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (17/01/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (10/01/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: North Yorkshire
Income and spending
Common questions
Is North Yorkshire Citizens Advice & Law Centre Limited financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £29,907 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total incoming resources of £4,126,458 against total expenditure of £4,096,551. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds totalled £1,668,415, which is above the stated reserves policy target of £835,000 for three months of running costs. The independent auditor 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 BK Plus Audit Limited.
Who funds North Yorkshire Citizens Advice & Law Centre Limited?
Funders whose own accounts filings name North Yorkshire Citizens Advice & Law Centre Limited as a grant recipient include THE ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOUNDATION, THE A B CHARITABLE TRUST, THE ALLEN OVERY SHEARMAN STERLING FOUNDATION, THE EVAN CORNISH FOUNDATION.
Known funders
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