NOTTINGHAM AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU
Registered charity 701259 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register
Giving advice and information across a wide range of social welfare law issues - debt, welfare benefits, employment, housing, family, consumer etc.The charity operates through a city centre main office and has 6 outreach bases across the Nottingham conurbation.
Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £142,683 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by funding cuts from Nottingham City Council and the end of several project grants. Despite this deficit, the trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, noting that unrestricted reserves currently cover their stated policy target.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £409k)
“Reserves currently cover this policy, but do not substantially exceed it.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by TC Group. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Year-over-year changes
- Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).
Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.
Corporate structure
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Nottingham & District Citizens Advice Bureau (matched by registered charity number).
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.
- YARWOOD, Robert Graham — director, appointed 05/02/2025on trustee list
- LAWSON, David John — director, appointed 22/08/2024on trustee list
- KINSHOTT, David Richard — director, appointed 13/03/2023not on trustee list
- GILL, Owen Barrington — director, appointed 30/01/2023on trustee list
- STRAW, Thomas — director, appointed 30/01/2023on trustee list
Official officers record.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Reported reserves equal ~2.7 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).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (31/03/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Dave Kinshott
- David Lawson
- Owen Barrington Gill
- Robert Yarwood
- Thomas Straw
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Nottingham City · Nottinghamshire
Income and spending
Common questions
Is NOTTINGHAM AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £142,683 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by funding cuts from Nottingham City Council and the end of several project grants. Despite this deficit, the trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, noting that unrestricted reserves currently cover their stated policy target. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by TC Group.
Government & lottery funding
Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).
Funders of similar charities
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Charities like this
Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CITIZENS ADVICE IN NORTH & WEST KENT.
Side by side with its peers
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