Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 5
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 19 ?

WATFORD CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

Advice & assistance with legal problems, debt and consumer issues, benefits, housing, legal matters, employment and immigration issues.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 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
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/24£616£576£40£0£430£3527.31940
31/03/23£514£483£30£1£390£3318.21940
31/03/22£447£442£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£560£424£136£0£327£2958.31440
31/03/20?£440£375£65n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£357£321£36n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£346£283£64n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£379£360£19n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£394£411£-17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£334£383£-50n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£274£256£18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£271£239£31n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£245£216£29n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£190£206£-16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£223£185£38n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08*£208£194£14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07£236£199£37n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£163£176£-13n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.1%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 18%
Liabilities/Income: 16%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 82%
Reserves/Spending: 7.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 9 months
Quick Ratio: 5.4
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 19 years

www.cawatford.org.uk

manager@watfordcab.cabnet.org.uk

01923224531

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Legal & financial advice
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Hertfordshire,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years
Access to Justice Foundation£38,941
Hertfordshire Community Foundation£15,000
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
The Clothworkers Foundation£4,850
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Citizens Advice Watford - Homeworking Initiative
£10,000 27/08/2020
Grant to Citizens Advice Watford
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£38,941 19/08/2020
A flexible grant as part of wave 1 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID19
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Watford Citizens Advice Bureau
£4,850 08/06/2020
COVID19 : Purchase IT equipment for a charity that provides legal advice and advocacy to disadvantaged communities in Herfordshire
National Lottery Community Fund - Citizens Advice Watford Advice at Home Project
£10,000 22/05/2020
7
The funding will be used to recruit train support and supervise up to 12 new and existing volunteers to deliver information and advice to people in Watford affected by Covid-19. The project aims to expand their current advice service to include ....more
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Citizens Advice Watford - Homeworking Initiative
£5,000 30/03/2020
Grant to Citizens Advice Watford
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Watford Citizens Advice Bureau
£21,500 22/05/2019
purchase of computers for a charity which works with people with disabilities in Watford
National Lottery Community Fund - Volunteer Training Programme
£9,989 21/03/2019
12
The project will use funding to increase training capacity for volunteers. This will assist the organisation to free up resources due to the high demand for volunteering whilst enabling volunteers to use their new skills and knowledge to support ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Volunteer Recruitment Project
£9,852 14/02/2018
12
This project will help recruit more volunteers, and to retain existing ones. The volunteers will reach more people in the community and provide more services, helping to address issues and bring people together.
National Lottery Community Fund - Transforming Advice in Watford
£206,810 19/04/2013
36
The aim of this new project is to create a seamless way of accessing rights and responsibilities advice for the people of Watford by involving four partners in the creation of a stronger local network. The project will ensure that clients are able ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Improving Advice Delivery through technology
£10,000 28/02/2013
12
This is a project by an incorporated charity in Watford. The organisation will use the funding to update their IT equipment by replacing a number of the current computers and upgrading the remainder of the computers. This will enable the group to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Improving Advice
£10,000 12/05/2011
12
This is a project by a charity in Watford. The group will use the funding to create a new advising room with IT equipment and furniture, and refurbish/redecorate the reception area and building.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 33-70
  • CHRISTOPHER STANLEY CONSTANT Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Legal And Governance Executive
  • COUNCILLOR JENNIFER PATTINSON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Charity Ceo
  • KEITH DAVID HOLMES Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired Business And It Consultant
  • KENNEDY RODRIGUES Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired Accountant
  • LAURENCE JULIAN BLAKE Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Risk Manager
  • LEENA NAGRECHA Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Company Secretary
  • MOHAMMED FARRUKH SIDDIQI Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Retired
  • RICHARD ANDREW BOULTON Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Consultant
  • SUZANNAH CLAIRE TRIVEDI Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Marketing Consultant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 06/06/2005, number: 1109872
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/05/2005, number: 05453262
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Financial Conduct Authority
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
18 returns made; AR08: 20 days late,
Main office

WATFORD ADVICE CENTRE
ST. MARYS CHURCHYARD
HIGH STREET
WATFORD
WD17 2BE

Objectives

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 WATFORD AND SURROUNDING AREAS

Defined Area of Benefit:

WATFORD.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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