CROYDON CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX LIMITED

Registered charity 298761 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CROYDON CAB, CROYDON CAB SERVICE, CROYDON CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU SERVICE

Provision of advice services to the people living and working in the London Borough of Croydon and surrounding areas.

Objects

Please note that bulk consent from the Charity Commission has already been agreed (June 2022) - arranged by Citizens Advice on behalf of CAB's in the network.Objects4. The charity’s objects (‘Objects’) are specifically: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 and distress in particular, but without limitation, for the benefit of the community in the London Borough of Croydon and surrounding areas.

Area of benefit: LONDON BOROUGH OF CROYDON

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 · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £1,658 for the year, with total incoming resources of £614,877 and total expenditure of £613,219. The trustees confirm the charity is a going concern, citing a new contract with Croydon Council and expected future funding as sufficient to continue operations for the foreseeable future.

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 6 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Cheryl Amanda Gowar
• David James Lindsay
• HOMER TAYLOR
• James Andrew Blyth DAGLISH
• Philip James Francis
• Richard Syed Ameer Khan
• Stephen Bahooshy
• Stephen Ian Corrall

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

Operates in: Croydon

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WANDSWORTH CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX LIMITED.

• WANDSWORTH CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX LIMITED income £2.2m
• LONDON CITIZENS ADVICE LTD income £1.7m
• CAMDEN CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX SERVICE LIMITED income £1.6m
• CROYDON BME FORUM income £1.6m
• "OFF THE RECORD" YOUTH COUNSELLING CROYDON income £3.0m
• ALHIDAYA CROYDON income £594k

Side by side with its peers

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