Finance Score: -7

Governance Score: 2

Support Score: 7

Poor Liquidity: -1
Spending declining: -1
Multiple Deficits and declines: -5

Dynamic board: +3
Mainly male board: -1

Grant maker support: +7

Overall GiG Score: 2

CENTRAL AND EAST NORTHAMPTONSHIRE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

provision of advice services

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board is predominantly male

Financial issues to consider:

Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
Spending is declining
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

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	£773	£797	£-24	£0	£75	£70	1	16	24
31/03/22	£950	£1,085	£-135	£0	£99	£94	1	63	27
31/03/21	£1,030	£1,022	£7	£0	£234	£224	2.6	30	32
31/03/20	£1,100	£1,102	£-1	£0	£227	£227	2.5	41	62
31/03/19	£1,208	£1,403	£-195	£0	£229	£204	1.7	41	60
31/03/18	£1,158	£1,217	£-60	£0	£424	£384	3.8	43	0
31/03/17	£1,027	£873	£154	£0	£483	£442	6.1	36	0
31/03/16	£695	£649	£46	£0	£329	£297	5.5	27	0
31/03/15	£620	£530	£90	£9	£243	£151	3.4	20	0
31/03/14	£475	£582	£-107	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 20%
Liabilities/Income: 2%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 93%
Reserves/Spending: 1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 4.1

Asset Split ?

Established: 11 years

www.cencab.org.uk

enquries@northamptoncab.cabnet.org.uk

01604235080

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

General Charitable Purposes
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Advice organisations

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information

Where it operates

Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Rutland,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

16 employees
24 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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Access to Justice Foundation - Community Justice Fund: Crisis Fund
£38,000	20/06/2022	CJF Crisis Fund was a small fund aimed at supporting organisations who are delivering specialist welfare legal advice and are facing an immediate financial crisis.
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - Continue existing work
£13,000	30/05/2022	to support ongoing activity required to increase our volunteer numbers, specifically to part fund the salary of the Advice Service Manager (ASM)
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£30,000	09/08/2021	A flexible grant as part of wave 2 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID53
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - Specialist Caseworker
£13,000	01/07/2021	Caseworker to focus on Specialist Partnership Building Services
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£38,900	07/09/2020	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
Department of Health - Health and Wellbeing - Social Prescribing Fund -Citizens advice North Oxfordshire and South Northamptonshire
£54,530	01/04/2019	An intervention through which people are supported to access non-medical services in the community.
Department of Health - Health and Wellbeing - Social Prescribing Fund -Citizens advice North Oxfordshire and South Northamptonshire
£90,260	01/04/2018	An intervention through which people are supported to access non-medical services in the community.
National Lottery Community Fund - Wellingborough & East Northamptonshire Advice Localisation & Demand
£98,406	19/09/2014 11	Not Available

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How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 55-87

CHRISTOPHER HAWKINS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Managing Director

DINESH KOTECHA Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeship: CITIZENS ADVICE NORTH OXFORDSHIRE AND SOUTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE,

RICHARD POOLE Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Locality Connector

SHARON STRINGER Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired

ULRIC GRAVESENDE Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Engineer

WILLIAM YULE Appointed: 2022, Other trusteeship: CITIZENS ADVICE NORTH OXFORDSHIRE AND SOUTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 08/04/2013, number: 1151555
Registered at Companies House on 07/03/2013, number: 08434853

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Other Regulators

Financial Conduct Authority

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment 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
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

10 returns made; all on time

Main office

CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU
Doddridge Centre
109 St James Road
Northampton
NN5 5LD

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE 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 NORTHAMPTONSHIRE AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

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