CITIZENS ADVICE ESSEX LIMITED
Registered charity 1153582 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ESSEX CAB, ESSEX CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU LIMITED
Assisting the member bureaux to secure funding from Essex County Council and other county and national level bodies, acting as a conduit to the processing of these funds and to streamline the relationship between bureaux and funders.
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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity maintained a total income of £2,061,860 with expenditure closely matched to income, resulting in a broadly neutral position. Free reserves of £153,091 were held, which the trustees confirm are above their stated policy target of three to six months of core operating costs. The trustees note that the external funding environment remains challenging, with significant reliance on major funders like Essex County Council, but the organization is pursuing diversification to ensure sustainability.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Related-party transaction: The document states that details of monies passed to member Local Citizens Advice are disclosed in the individual accounts for each member, not in these consolidated accounts. No specific amounts are listed in this document for these transactions.
“Details of the monies passed, during the year, by Citizens Advice Essex Limited to each member Local Citizens Advice is disclosed in the individual accounts for each member, which are publicly available.” — page 28
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Denmark Forrester Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Martin Lord — Consortium Director (source)
Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Reported reserves equal ~0.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter 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).
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Essex
Income and spending
Common questions
Is CITIZENS ADVICE ESSEX LIMITED financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity maintained a total income of £2,061,860 with expenditure closely matched to income, resulting in a broadly neutral position. Free reserves of £153,091 were held, which the trustees confirm are above their stated policy target of three to six months of core operating costs. The trustees note that the external funding environment remains challenging, with significant reliance on major funders like Essex County Council, but the organization is pursuing diversification to ensure sustainability. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Denmark Forrester Limited.
Who funds CITIZENS ADVICE ESSEX LIMITED?
Funders whose own accounts filings name CITIZENS ADVICE ESSEX LIMITED as a grant recipient include ESSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.
Known funders
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