Overall GiG Score: 14 ?
Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 7
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7

BRISTOL CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU 

The delivery of community legal advice services to the people of Bristol
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and a Community Foundation
  • 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 issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
Established: 32 years

www.bristolcab.org.uk

info@citizensadvicebristol.org.uk

01179462560

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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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£799£757£42£0£160£1602.53435
31/03/22£837£866£-29£0£118£1181.64645
31/03/21*£863£874£-11£0£147£14224575
31/03/20£794£834£-40£3£158£1271.84250
31/03/19£708£697£10£3£197£1893.33959
31/03/18£719£735£-17£34£187£1853380
31/03/17£688£738£-50£34£204£2013.3230
31/03/16£727£758£-32£33£254£2544210
31/03/15£646£675£-29£30£285£2855.1210
31/03/14£693£673£19£36£314£3145.6210
31/03/13£654£668£-14£37£295£2945.3380
31/03/12£630£629£1£13£309£2094400
31/03/11£690£639£50£25£308£2244.2370
31/03/10£713£564£150£12£258£1954.1230
31/03/09£508£508£0£3£108£992.3150
31/03/08£462£397£66£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£319£288£32£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£262£308£-46£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£324£288£36£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£241£266£-25£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 53%
Liabilities/Income: 22%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 2.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 1.5
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • General Charitable Purposes
Who works here?
  • 34 employees
  • 35 volunteers
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Bristol City,

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
Quartet Community Foundation£319,913
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
DCMS£10,000
CAF£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bristol Citizens Advice Bureau
£8,700 02/06/2023
As directed by the donor towards debt advice work.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bristol Citizens Advice Bureau
£1,312 17/03/2023
As directed by the donor towards small grants to individuals to alleviate hardship.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bristol Citizens Advice Bureau
£260,413 23/09/2022
A partnership that will link up with Welcoming Spaces across Bristol to provide advice and information to residents who are struggling to meet their basic expenditures due to the cost of living ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Volunteer development to increase resilience during the cost of living crisis
£10,000 23/09/2022
The funding will be used to increase the hours of their Advice Session Supervisor enabling them to support develop and manage volunteer advisors. The project aims to build the skills of volunteers ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bristol Citizens Advice Bureau
£7,560 09/06/2022
As directed by the donor towards debt advice work.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bristol Citizens Advice Bureau
£7,500 08/06/2022
Towards advice services to meet increased demand during the cost of living crisis
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bristol Citizens Advice Bureau
£5,000 06/04/2022
Towards the costs of recruiting and training volunteer advice workers.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bristol Citizens Advice Bureau
£5,728 10/06/2021
As directed by the donor towards debt advice work.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bristol Citizens Advice Bureau
£10,000 10/11/2020
Towards the costs of keeping an advice centre open to digitally excluded clients as well as enabling staff and volunteers to work effectively from home.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bristol Citizens Advice Bureau
£8,700 18/06/2020
As advised by donor.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 18/06/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
CAF - Grant to Bristol Citizens Advice Bureau
£5,000 01/06/2020
3
Grant to Bristol Citizens Advice Bureau to support the organisation through COVID19
Quartet Community Foundation - Volunteer Training and Development Programme
£5,000 24/03/2020
11
Toward their annual volunteer training and development programme.
Quartet Community Foundation - Expanded Volunteer Training and Development programme to increase sustainability
£2,500 18/03/2019
11
Toward the group's annual volunteer advice worker's training costs.
Quartet Community Foundation - Expanded Volunteer Training and Development programme to increase sustainability
£5,000 12/09/2017
11
For the cost of training volunteers over the next year, and enable them to expand their volunteer base to provide two new services, a telephone advice service staffed by law students and in-house ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Volunteer Training and Development programme
£3,000 08/08/2016
11
For the training of volunteer advisers over one year.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 8/9 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 35-63
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 03/07/1992, number: 1012557
  • Registered at Companies House on 05/02/1992, number: 02684649
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
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR21: 50 days late, AR06: 1 days late,
Main office

48 FAIRFAX STREET
BRISTOL
BS1 3BL

Objectives

THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE AREA OF THE CITY OF BRISTOL AND SURROUNDING LOCALITY BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY SICKNESS AND DISTRESS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

IN PRACTICE BRISTOL AND ITS IMMEDIATE ENVIRONS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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