RURAL CAMBS CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU LTD

Registered charity 1146277 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provide free, independent, confidential and impartial advice to help people resolve their legal, financial and other problems. Also to improve the policies and practices that affect peoples' lives.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £53,954 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income rising to £1,125,134. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves increased to £275,909, which exceeds the charity's stated policy target of holding the higher of its lease liabilities or two and a half months of operating expenditure. The independent auditors 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

Accounts audited by Stephenson Smart (East Anglia) Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Cambridge Building Society — “The Cambridge Building Society” (source page)
• Cambridgeshire Community Foundation — “Cambridgeshire Community Foundation” (source page)
• Cambridgeshire County Council — “Cambridgeshire County Council” (source page)
• Chatteris Town Council — “Chatteris Town Council” (source page)
• Cambridgeshire Local Assistance Scheme — “Cambridgeshire Local Assistance Scheme” (source page)
• Fenland District Council — “Fenland District Council” (source page)
• Godmanchester Foodbank — “Godmanchester Foodbank” (source page)
• Huntingdonshire District Council — “Huntingdonshire District Council” (source page)
• Robert Hall Charity and Hudson Foundation — “Robert Hall Charity and Hudson Foundation” (source page)
• St Ives Town Council — “St Ives Town Council” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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 (12/04/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/04/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lucy Webb
• MICHAEL JAMES REX MEALING
• Peter Finnigan
• Susannah Clare Connell · trustee of 1 other charity
• William Grieve

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• SCUNTHORPE AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.8m
• CARDIFF AND VALE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £4.9m
• CAMDEN CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX SERVICE LIMITED income £1.6m
• LEWES DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £521k
• Citizens Advice Mid Mercia income £5.1m
• THE ROYAL BOROUGH OF KINGSTON UPON THAMES CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX SERVICE income £281k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.