SHEFFIELD CITIZENS ADVICE AND LAW CENTRE

Registered charity 1153277 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Citizens Advice Bureau and Law Centre

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · 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 reported a deficit of £267,555 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total funds decreasing from £2,654,828 to £2,387,272. The trustees confirm that the charity's services are being provided on a sound financial basis and that there are no material uncertainties about its 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 Allen, West and Foster Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 0 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Citizens Advice Sheffield (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 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 ~3.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (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 (21/04/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/11/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/11/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (03/11/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (29/08/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/07/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Deborah Jane Mathewschair · trustee of 2 other charities
• ALISTAIR MICHAEL DINHAM GRIGGS
• Ahmed Mohamed · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gregory Norman Watts
• HILARY JANE DAWSON B.ED
• Jessica Lewis
• Karen Escott
• Lynsey Theresa Golland
• MARK YEHUDAH GAMSU
• Mohammad Shadique Rajjaque
• Neal Southwick
• Sheila Robinson
• Tracey Holland

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

Operates in: Sheffield City

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 CITIZENS ADVICE CENTRAL DORSET LIMITED.

• CITIZENS ADVICE CENTRAL DORSET LIMITED income £1.4m
• CITIZENS ADVICE BRADFORD & AIREDALE AND BRADFORD LAW CENTRE income £2.5m
• CITIZENS ADVICE IN WEST SUSSEX (NORTH, SOUTH, EAST) income £2.7m
• THE LEGAL ADVICE CENTRE(UNIVERSITY HOUSE) income £1.1m
• CITIZENS ADVICE DONCASTER BOROUGH income £1.9m
• SCUNTHORPE AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

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