Citizens Advice Braintree & South Essex Limited
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
To provide free, impartial and confidential advice and information to our clients on a range of issues that may include debt, welfare benefits, housing, employment, health and relationships.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 March 2024
Total income:
£1,423,580
| Donations and legacies | £2.95k | |
| Charitable activities | £1.41m | |
| Other trading activities | £0 | |
| Investments | £11.62k | |
| Other | £0 |
Total expenditure:
£1,477,788
| Raising funds | £0 | |
| Charitable activities | £1.48m | |
| Other | £0 |
-£3,380 investments gains (losses)
Total income includes £986,980 from 11 government grant(s)
Charitable expenditure
Charitable expenditure with investment gains
Charitable expenditure
Some charities generate all, or a substantial part, of their income from investments which may have been donated to the charity as endowment or set aside by the charity from its own resources in the past. Such investments usually take the form of stocks and shares but may include other assets, such as property, that are capable of generating income and/or capital growth.
In managing their spending and investments charities need to strike a balance between the needs of future and current beneficiaries. They also need to take account of spending commitments that may stretch over a number of future years. To do this, charities will normally adopt an investment strategy designed to generate both income and capital growth. To maximise returns trustees may commit to investment strategies for several years.
Investments can experience large swings in value so trustees may, in a particular year, decide to realise and spend part of their charity’s capital or to invest part of its income.
By clicking the investment gains checkbox the charitable spending bar is adjusted to take account of capital growth as well as income. This shows the balance the charity is striking, between spending on current beneficiaries and retaining resources for future beneficiaries.
| Raising funds and other expenditure | £0 | |
| Charitable expenditure | £1.48m |
People
66 Employee(s)
12 Trustee(s)
105 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charityFundraising
Trading
Trustee payments
What, who, how, where
- General Charitable Purposes
- Disability
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Accommodation/housing
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People With Disabilities
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- Other Defined Groups
- The General Public/mankind
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Essex
- Thurrock
Governance
- 10 March 2006: Standard registration
- 06 March 2020: Funds received from 1082949 ROCHFORD AND RAYLEIGH CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU LIMIT...
- 15 October 2020: Funds received from 1098171 BRENTWOOD CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU
- 23 February 2023: Funds received from 1078781 THE ROTARY CLUB OF BRENTWOOD BREAKFAST TRUST FUND
- 23 August 2024: Funds received from 1099232 BRAINTREE HALSTEAD AND WITHAM CITIZENS ADVICE BURE...
- BASILDON BILLERICAY AND WICKFORD CITIZENS ADVICE SERVICE LTD (Previous name)
- BASILDON BOROUGH CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU LTD (Previous name)
- BASILDON DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE LTD (Previous name)
- CITIZENS ADVICE BASILDON AND THURROCK LIMITED (Previous name)
- Citizens Advice South Essex Limited (Previous name)
- Financial Conduct Authority
- Complaints handling
- Conflicting interests
- Investment
- Paying staff
- Risk management
- Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
- Volunteer management
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
12 Trustee(s)
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| Stuart Robert Freel | Chair | 13 March 2019 |
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| Tamasin Anne Curtis | Trustee | 17 January 2024 |
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| Derek Wotton | Trustee | 01 October 2023 |
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| Oluwatoyin Bolanle Odunlami | Trustee | 09 January 2023 |
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| Jayne Anita Ainsworth | Trustee | 23 November 2022 |
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| John William Gerald Evans | Trustee | 25 August 2021 |
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| Mark Fenn | Trustee | 25 March 2020 |
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| William Jones | Trustee | 25 March 2020 |
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| Richard Rackham | Trustee | 19 February 2020 |
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| Thomas Francis Harrison | Trustee | 13 March 2019 |
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| BRETT SAINTY | Trustee | 09 May 2018 |
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| Lynn Talbot | Trustee | 12 October 2016 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 31/03/2020 | 31/03/2021 | 31/03/2022 | 31/03/2023 | 31/03/2024 | ||
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Total gross income | £855.95k | £999.38k | £1.19m | £1.05m | £1.42m | |
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Total expenditure | £898.45k | £956.32k | £1.11m | £1.14m | £1.48m | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | £381.69k | £521.76k | £919.27k | £459.13k | £986.98k | |
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Income - Donations and legacies | £7.30k | £4.06k | £1.20k | £3.74k | £2.95k | |
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Income - Other trading activities | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Income - Charitable activities | £848.14k | £994.09k | £1.19m | £1.05m | £1.41m | |
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Income - Endowments | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Income - Investment | £515 | £1.23k | £577 | £0 | £11.62k | |
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Income - Other | £0 | £0 | £0 | £1.70k | £0 | |
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Income - Legacies | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Expenditure - Charitable activities | £898.45k | £956.32k | £1.11m | £1.14m | £1.48m | |
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Expenditure - Raising funds | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Expenditure - Governance | £0 | £0 | £0 | £8.37k | £10.17k | |
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Expenditure - Grants institution | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Expenditure - Investment management | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Expenditure - Other | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
Assets and liabilities
Definitions for assets and liabilities
These are assets, other than investments, which are held for more than 12 months and used to run and administer the charity such as buildings, offices, exhibits and fixtures and fittings.
Long term InvestmentsInvestments are assets held by the charity with the sole aim of generating income which will be used for their charitable purposes such as deposit accounts, shares, rental property and unit trusts.
Investment assets are re-valued every year and included in the balance sheet at their current market value.
Long term investments are held for more than 12 months.
These are assets held generally for less than 12 months such as cash and bank balances, debtors, investments to be sold within the coming year and trading stock.
Defined benefit pension scheme asset or liabilityThis is a surplus or deficit in any defined benefit pension scheme operated and represents a potential long-term asset or liability.
Total liabilitiesThese are all the amounts owed by the charity at the balance sheet date to third parties such as bills due but not yet paid, bank overdrafts and loans and mortgages.
| Asset / Liability | 31/03/2020 | 31/03/2021 | 31/03/2022 | 31/03/2023 | 31/03/2024 | ||
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Own use assets | £10.50k | £4.50k | £40.00k | £28.10k | £24.86k | |
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Long-term investments | £0 | £0 | £173.86k | £162.65k | £0 | |
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Other assets | £479.93k | £527.79k | £395.44k | £333.20k | £599.43k | |
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Defined benefit pension scheme asset or liability | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Total liabilities | £89.85k | £88.65k | £51.07k | £68.02k | £58.14k |
Accounts and annual returns
| Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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| Annual return | 31 March 2024 | 22 January 2025 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2024 | 22 January 2025 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2023 | 13 December 2023 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2023 | 13 December 2023 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2022 | 15 November 2022 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2022 | 15 November 2022 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2021 | 16 December 2021 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2021 | 16 December 2021 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2020 | 09 December 2020 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2020 | 09 December 2020 | On Time | Download Open in new window |