Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 7
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

THE ESHER AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU 

The service provides free, independent, confidential and impartial advice to everyone on their rights and responsibilities.
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
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 32 years

www.eshercab.org.uk

bureau@eshercab.org.uk

01372462100

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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£168£178£-10n/an/an/an/an/a33
31/03/22£178£191£-12n/an/an/an/an/a32
31/03/21£190£176£13n/an/an/an/an/a39
31/03/20£164£144£20n/an/an/an/an/a32
31/03/19£144£138£5n/an/an/an/an/a43
31/03/18£123£132£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£114£134£-19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£132£131£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£124£115£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£125£112£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£130£119£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£125£112£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£130£113£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£127£122£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£102£105£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£91£97£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£87£100£-13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£83£91£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£80£84£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£83£81£2£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Surrey,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 33 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
Community Foundation for Surrey£50,000
National Lottery Community Fund£40,000
Walton Charity£15,000
Henry Smith Charity£10,000
CAF£5,000
Co-Operative Group£4,059
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Building resilience in the cost of living crisis
£10,000 16/06/2023
The funding will be used to provide financial and legal advice for people struggling during the cost of living crisis. The project aims to offer a multi-agency approach to supporting people ....more
Community Foundation for Surrey - Feeling good
£10,000 02/11/2022
Funding towards salary costs to provide advice and support for people facing a range of disadvantages.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Citizens Advice Esher & District
£1,626 22/10/2022
We would like to increase our capacity to help people who have been affected by Covid-19 and now need to deal with the problems that have built up since the first lockdown.
National Lottery Community Fund - A lifeline for our community
£10,000 08/04/2022
The funding will be used to deliver a debt management support service particularly for people with mental health issues and poor literacy and numeracy skills where they will gain advice and ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Citizens Advice Esher & District
£2,433 23/10/2021
We'd like to build our capacity to cope with the surge in demand due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Debt, housing issues and employment problems are already on the increase.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Here when you need us
£10,000 17/06/2021
12
Towards running costs for continuing to provide its advice service in the Esher area.
Walton Charity - Debt Advice
£15,000 07/05/2021
Funding an increase in supervisor capacity for debt and associated direct costs. Grant for third year of grant (2023).
National Lottery Community Fund - After the lockdown
£5,000 19/03/2021
11
The funding will be used to build capacity and capability to provide a scaled-up responsive and effective support advice and information service to those with debt problems. The project aims to ....more
Community Foundation for Surrey - COVID19 - Advice and support
£5,000 05/03/2021
Funding toward the essential running costs of an organisation that offer their legal expertise for free in the Esher & District area, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Contribution to core costs for a Citizens Advice supporting people in need in Elmbridge
£10,000 17/06/2020
Contribution to core costs for a Citizens Advice supporting people in need in Elmbridge
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Esher & District Citizens Advice
£10,000 10/06/2020
12
towards one year's running costs of an advisory, information and support service for people who live or work in Elmbridge, Surrey
National Lottery Community Fund - After the lockdown
£5,000 22/05/2020
7
The project will use funding to run a volunteer support service specialising in debt and money advice to people struggling to cope during the COVID-19 pandemic.
CAF - Grant to Esher & District Citizens Advice
£5,000 16/04/2020
3
Grant to Esher & District Citizens Advice to support the organisation through COVID19
Community Foundation for Surrey - Covid 19 Response - Advice and support
£5,000 01/04/2020
Funding toward the purchase of equipment to enable a team of legal experts, based in Esher and District, who offer their services for free, to work from home, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Bringing dignity to disability
£10,000 01/04/2020
10
Funding towards the essential running costs of a charity that offers specialist and free legal advice to anyone who presents themselves, based in Esher and District.
National Lottery Community Fund - With a little help from my friends
£10,000 11/07/2019
12
The organisation will use funding to run its debt advice service. The project aims to help clients take control of their finances, reducing stress and improving their quality of life.
Community Foundation for Surrey - DLA to PIP
£3,000 17/01/2019
11
Support for clients of a CAB to access disability benefits.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Citizens Advice Esher & District
£6,776 19/11/2018
We want to extend our advice service to Claygate and provide specialist support to help disabled people apply for and keep their benefits.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Assisted self help for building financial capability or "With a little help from my friends"
£20,000 12/08/2018
23
Staff costs for a two year project to modernise the delivery of of financial support services and encourage financial literacy in young people.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Esher & District Citizens Advice
£7,000 14/03/2018
24
towards two years' running costs of an information, advice and support service for people who live or work in a disadvantaged area of Surrey
Community Foundation for Surrey - From DLA to PIP
£5,000 23/10/2017
11
Additional support for disabled people to migrate claims of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) to the Personal Independence Payment (PIP).
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 44-76
  • IAN WOOD Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Solicitor
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 09/07/1992, number: 1012732
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/06/1992, number: 02719456
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Financial Conduct Authority
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from CITIZENS ADVICE SURREY on 04/02/2022
Main office

Citizens Advice Esher & District
Civic Centre
High Street
ESHER
Surrey
KT10 9RP

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 ESHER, MOLESEY, CLAYGATE, OXSHOTT AND COBHAM AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

ESHER, MOLESEY, CLAYGATE, OXHOTT & COBHAM - ALL IN SURREY

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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