TEST VALLEY CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

Registered charity 1156829 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Advice and information giving organisation

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS ANDDISTRESS IN PARTICULAR, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN TEST VALLEY BOROUGH AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Test Valley, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £23,199 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total incoming resources of £448,952. The trustees maintain a reserves policy of not less than three months of normal operating expenditure, and unrestricted general funds stood at £232,621. While some restricted funds are in deficit, these are supported by general funds, and the charity confirms it has no borrowings.

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
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08933947 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• BENNETT, Karin Rachel Bean — director, appointed 09/09/2026on trustee list
• COOPER, Susan Janet — director, appointed 20/03/2026on trustee list
• CONS, Ben Major George — director, appointed 16/02/2026on trustee list
• MOORE, Graham — director, appointed 22/04/2025on trustee list
• MARTIN, Victoria Esther — director, appointed 23/07/2024on trustee list
• THORPE, Linda Ellen — director, appointed 17/01/2023on trustee list
• GLADWELL, Alexandra — director, appointed 25/01/2022on trustee list
• BOWDEN, Stephen Roy — director, appointed 23/04/2018on trustee list
• MOON, Angela Theresa — secretary, appointed 28/07/2026

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title 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.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/01/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (28/10/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexandra Gladwell
• Ben Cons
• Graham Moore
• Karin Bennett
• Linda Ellen Thorpe
• Stephen Bowden
• Susan Cooper
• Victoria Esther Martin

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• CHARNWOOD CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £251k
• DUNSTABLE AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £230k
• CARDIFF AND VALE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £4.9m
• TADLEY AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £270k
• EASTBOURNE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £616k
• SCUNTHORPE AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

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