COMMUNITY ADVICE SERVICE

Registered charity 1195934 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Community Advice Service (CAS) Provides activities including Advice Information & Guidance; Health, Sports, & Physical Training; Skills & Employability Advice and Support; Climate Change & Energy Advice; Interactive ESOL Language Classes; Community Capacity Building; Community Cultural Events and Community Media Shows.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE MIGRANT COMMUNITIES IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE AREA OF THE BLACK COUNTRY (SANDWELL, WALSALL, DUDLEY AND WOLVERHAMPTON), IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AND THE PROMOTION OF RACIAL HARMONY.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sandwell, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £12,070.30 and held £12,089.16 in cash at bank. Unrestricted reserves were minimal at £18.86, while restricted income funds stood at £12,070.30. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters were identified during the examination of the accounts.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 2 of 6 completeness components.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mazhar Hussainchair
• Anamur Choudhury
• Sunara Bibi

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

Operates in: Dudley · Sandwell · Walsall · Wolverhampton

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COMMUNITY ADVICE AND LAW SERVICE LTD.

• COMMUNITY ADVICE AND LAW SERVICE LTD income £4.2m
• COMMUNITY AID LIMITED income £25k
• Citizens Advice East Lancashire income £1.7m
• CWMPARC COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £296k
• COMMUNITY CARE OPTIONS income £705k
• CITIZENS ADVICE SOUTH WARWICKSHIRE income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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