CAMDEN CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX SERVICE LIMITED

Registered charity 291955 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The principal charity activity is the provision of independent, confidential and free advice and information services to people who live, work and conduct business in the London Borough of Camden and the surrounding area.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made a surplus of £165,462 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total reserves increasing to £817,303. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £670,371, which is above the stated policy target of £518,000 (equivalent to four months' budgeted operating expenditure). The trustees confirmed the charity is a going concern with adequate resources to continue operations for at least twelve months.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01909828

Funders the charity credits

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

• Great Ormond Street Hospital — “Funding for the Staff Support advice service.” (source page)
• Birkbeck, University of London — “Funding for a weekly advice service for students of Birkbeck.” (source page)
• Camden Council — “Funding for a free advice service for Camden residents and a Financial Wellbeing service.” (source page)
• Camden Health Improvement Practice — “Funding for the CHIP advice service for patients of the practice.” (source page)
• Citizens Advice — “Funding for the Universal Credit Help to Claim service and the Energy Advice Projects.” (source page)
• City Bridge Trust — “Funding to help claimants with Universal Credit problems.” (source page)
• Great Ormond Street Children’s Charity — “Funding for Camden Citizens Advice service for families of children at GOSH.” (source page)
• Hampstead Wells and Campden Trust — “Funding for the Debt Advice North Camden and the Advice North Camden services.” (source page)
• Royal Free Hospital — “Funding for Citizens Advice Camden to provide an advice service for Macmillan patients and those using the renal service.” (source page)
• St Andrew Holborn — “Funding for the St Andrew Advice project providing advice to residents in their area of benefit.” (source page)
• University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust — “Funding for the staff advice service.” (source page)

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.

• MARBER, Juliet Cherie Louise — director, appointed 10/09/2024on trustee list
• GOLDHILL, Carolyn — director, appointed 23/05/2023on trustee list
• MCLEOD, Geraldine Fiona — director, appointed 24/05/2022on trustee list
• SAINI, Kushalta — director, appointed 01/03/2022on trustee list
• FERGUSON, Jessica — director, appointed 25/11/2020on trustee list
• CASTELOW, Eve Helen — director, appointed 25/11/2020on trustee list
• SCHOEN, Albert Jacob — director, appointed 12/11/2019on trustee list
• WYATT, David — director, appointed 13/05/2019on trustee list
• GUY, Susan Cropley — director, appointed 17/07/2018on trustee list
• ATKINSON, David Norman — director, appointed 01/05/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Susan Guychair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Albert Jacob Schoen
• Carolyn Goldhill
• David Wyatt
• Dr DAVID ATKINSON
• Eve Helen Castelow
• Geraldine Fiona Mcleod
• Jessica Ferguson
• Juliet Marber
• Kushalta Saini

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

Operates in: Throughout London

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 RURAL CAMBS CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU LTD.

• RURAL CAMBS CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU LTD income £1.1m
• CARDIFF AND VALE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £4.9m
• SCUNTHORPE AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.8m
• HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX SERVICE income £1.7m
• THE ROYAL BOROUGH OF KINGSTON UPON THAMES CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX SERVICE income £281k
• SOUTHWARK CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX SERVICE income £2.1m

Side by side with its peers

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