Finance Score: 6
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 13
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +13
Overall GiG Score: 22 ?

WANDSWORTH CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX LIMITED 

The provision of advice services to Wandsworth residents
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£1,675£1,605£70£21£561£5614.24170
31/03/22£1,718£1,672£45£26£477£4623.34180
31/03/21£1,537£1,472£66£19£422£4223.43790
31/03/20£1,329£1,290£40£20£388£3883.63394
31/03/19£1,257£1,235£21£19£344£3443.329102
31/03/18£1,244£1,250£-6£34£398£3983.8310
31/03/17£1,134£1,082£52£38£321£3173.5270
31/03/16£922£951£-29£21£356£3504.4200
31/03/15£881£833£48£27£385£3334.8180
31/03/14£825£753£72£39£338£3385.4150
31/03/13£809£830£-21£33£263£2633.8210
31/03/12£798£777£22£36£272£2714.2200
31/03/11£842£811£31£34£251£2513.7220
31/03/10£882£858£24£59£218£2153240
31/03/09£902£946£-44£68£176£1762.2260
31/03/08£891£973£-81£66£245£2453280
31/03/07£984£993£-9£64£335£3093.7250
31/03/06£927£909£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£883£837£46£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£1,191£1,381£-190£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 1.3%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 1.3%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 6%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 35%
Liabilities/Income: 21%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 4.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 1.8
Asset Split ?
Established: 30 years

www.cawandsworth.org

mary-ann.foxwell@cawandsworth.org

02086823766

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseX
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Advice organisations
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Wandsworth,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 41 employees
  • 70 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£899,460
Access to Justice Foundation£500,000
City Bridge Trust£239,000
Henry Smith Charity£173,500
Trust for London£127,652
The London Community Foundation£30,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Access to Justice Foundation - Improving Lives Through Advice Grant
£500,000 01/03/2024
The Improving Lives Through Advice programme is made possible by a £30 million grant from The National Lottery Community Fund, thanks to National Lottery players. Working in partnership with the ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Help Through Hardship Crisis
£461,396 19/07/2023
This project will use funding to support people in Wandsworth who face hardship and crisis by strengthening the capacity of community networks to support them. The group will work closely with ....more
Trust for London - Citizens Advice Wandsworth
£100,000 05/05/2022
The funding is for: Providing employment advice to Wandsworth residents. Building the capacity of the London Citizens Advice network to increase employment advice provision by delivering a program of ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Citizens Advice Wandsworth
£173,500 23/09/2021
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the 'Foodbank Advice Service' supporting foodbank service users in tackling financial problems and accessing benefits in the London Borough of Wandsworth.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Citizens Advice Wandsworth
£30,000 30/03/2021
11
The funding is for a specialist caseworker who'll provide employment advice and casework support to marginalised and low-income residents of Wandsworth. They'll deliver a programme of training and ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Citizens Advice Wandsworth
£239,000 07/01/2021
60
£239,000 over five years (£47,260; £47,220; £47,700; £48,170; £48,650) for the salary of a f/t Housing Advisor; and related training and IT costs and organisational overheads.
Trust for London - Wandsworth Citizens Advice Bureau
£27,652 02/09/2020
6
This funding will enable the organisation to provide in-depth employment advice to callers, and to increase the knowledge and skills of its whole assessment team – in particular by ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Continuation of Community Centred Help Through Hardship Crisis
£438,064 02/03/2020
38
The funding will be used to support advice services on employment, benefits, homelessness, debt, and health problems. The project will also train volunteers and staff from community and voluntary ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Citizens Advice Wandsworth
£177,200 14/03/2018
36
towards three years' running costs of the 'Foodbank Advice Service' which supports service users in the London Borough of Wandsworth to tackle financial problems and access benefits
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Citizen's Advice Wandsworth
£64,300 24/11/2016
£64,300 for the third and final year of meeting staffing and overheads costs of an advice service for Wandsworth Foodbank users
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Centred Help Through Hardship Crisis in Wandsworth
£476,879 03/03/2016
48
A new project to identify people experiencing hardship including people with learning disabilities, disabled people and managing alcohol and drug issues who commonly struggle with benefit issues, ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Wandsworth Citizens Advice Bureaux
£130,000 28/01/2015
24
£130,000 over two years (£68,000; £62,000) towards an advice service for Wandsworth Foodbank users.
National Lottery Community Fund - Transforming Wandsworth Advice
£342,908 25/04/2013
36
The aim of this new project is to install a new IT portal system which will link users to web-sites to promote self use and independence. This will be achieved by increasing the knowledge and skills ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Online Advice - Information for Wandsworth
£10,000 31/01/2013
12
This is a project by a charity in Derbyshire. The group will use the funding to redesign and upgrade the current website and install a new server and software which has become out dated. This will ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 42-80
  • LAUREN IANNARONE Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Director, Public Affairs And Sustainability
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/08/1994, number: 1040303
  • Registered at Companies House on 12/07/1994, number: 02947554
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Financial Conduct Authority
Policies in force
  • 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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • 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
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Main office

Citizens Advice Wandsworth
Battersea Library
265 Lavender Hill
LONDON
SW11 1JB

Objectives

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 WANDSWORTH AND SURROUNDING AREAS (THE PRINCIPAL AREA OF BENEFIT) AND ELSEWHERE IN GREATER LONDON

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE LONDON BOROUGH OF WANDSWORTH AND SURROUNDING AREAS AND ELSEWHERE IN GREATER LONDON.

Data Sources

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