CITIZENS ADVICE NORTH EAST KENT

Registered charity 803115 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CANTERBURY DISTRICT C.A.B, CANTERBURY DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU, THE CANTERBURY DISTRICT C.A.B

Providing free, confidential, impartial advice to the community in the Canterbury, Herne Bay and Whitstable and the surrounding areas.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES 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 ENGLAND AND IN PARTICULAR CANTERBURY AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

Area of benefit: CANTERBURY AND SURROUNDING AREAS

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded an overall deficit of £2,833 for the year ended 31 March 2026, driven by an excess of expenditure on direct services over funding received. The unrestricted general fund balance stood at £101,178, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of £133,520. Despite this deficit and the impending merger with Citizens Advice Swale, the trustees believe the going concern basis of accounting remains appropriate.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2025) → no going-concern doubt (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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

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

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

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/03/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ann Pamela Kenworthy · trustee of 1 other charity
• CONCEPTA BERNADETTE NOLAN · trustee of 2 other charities
• Connor Harney · trustee of 1 other charity
• DREW CULLEN
• Don Ramble
• Elliott Jayes · trustee of 1 other charity
• Hannah Edwards · trustee of 1 other charity
• Hilary Anne Brighton · trustee of 2 other charities
• Katie Gough
• Sharon Kim Hunt
• Sue Mary Theodoreson
• Susan Emily Record · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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.

• CITIZENS ADVICE IN NORTH & WEST KENT income £2.1m
• CITIZENS ADVICE SERVICES CORBY & KETTERING income £579k
• THE NORTH TYNESIDE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £2.9m
• COVENTRY CITIZENS ADVICE income £1.8m
• CITIZENS ADVICE IN EAST DORSET AND PURBECK LTD income £1.3m
• CITIZENS ADVICE THANET income £405k

Side by side with its peers

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