Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 10
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

ST ALBANS DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU 

Provides advice and advocacy services to members of the public.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • 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 gender
Established: 30 years

www.citizensadvicestalbans.org.uk

admin@castad.org.uk

01727 811118

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£573£542£31£0£183£1713.82791
31/03/22£563£505£58£0£152£1433.41395
31/03/21£421£411£10n/an/an/an/an/a83
31/03/20£399£374£25n/an/an/an/an/a130
31/03/19£319£301£17n/an/an/an/an/a116
31/03/18£260£242£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£221£203£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£257£248£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£243£242£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£191£195£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£162£178£-15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£172£165£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£180£170£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£184£160£24£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£158£171£-13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£164£148£16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£139£130£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£145£136£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£135£130£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£142£147£-5£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: 27%
Liabilities/Income: 14%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 94%
Reserves/Spending: 3.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 3.5
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Hertfordshire,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 27 employees
  • 91 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
Hertfordshire Community Foundation£372,031
National Lottery Community Fund£29,175
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government£25,950
Access to Justice Foundation£12,496
Co-Operative Group£11,317
DCMS£9,670
The MSE Charity£7,465
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Volunteer Recruitment and Training
£9,800 14/10/2022
The funding will be used to employ a part-time staff member for three months to publicise and market the opportunities for volunteer advisers and subsequent training staff costs. The project aims to ....more
Access to Justice Foundation - Spring Grants Round 2022
£12,496 30/03/2022
The 2022 Spring Grants Round aims to support the provision pro bono provision throughout the UK, at a regional and/or local level.
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Disability Benefits Project
£152,551 05/01/2022
Request for two year's funding to continue supporting the Disability Benefits project across St Albans, Hertsmere, North Herts, Watford, East Herts and Three Rivers.
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Scams Awareness, Prevention and Support
£5,000 25/11/2021
Grant to Citizens Advice St Albans and District
The MSE Charity - Grant to St Albans District Citizens Advice Bureau
£7,465 15/11/2021
Funding a specialist financial advice worker for those who have been made redundant
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Broadband upgrade
£3,960 16/09/2021
Grant to Citizens Advice St Albans and District
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government - Hong Kong British National Overseas (HKBNOs) Welcome Programme
£25,950 21/07/2021
Resettlement funding for Hong Kong British nationals (overseas)
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Laptops for new volunteer advisers
£4,610 24/06/2021
Grant to Citizens Advice St Albans and District
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Grant to Citizens Advice St Albans and District
£5,000 29/03/2021
help to maximise income, reduce outgoings, manage debts, tackle social isolation
National Lottery Community Fund - Growing young volunteers
£9,375 19/03/2021
5
The funding will be used to recruit young people to become volunteers and provide advice to local people through the citizens advice service. The project aims to provide work experience and ....more
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Grant to Citizens Advice St Albans District
£5,000 01/03/2021
5
Volunteer Training Programme
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Debt and financial support for people recovering from addiction
£18,850 19/01/2021
Grant to Citizens Advice St Albans and District
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Providing specialist advice on employment issues
£13,970 07/10/2020
Grant to Citizens Advice St Albans and District
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Disability Benefits Project
£98,720 05/10/2020
Grant to Citizens Advice St Albans and District
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,670 02/07/2020
"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
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Switch to a telephone service based on home working
£4,720 06/04/2020
Grant to Citizens Advice St Albans and District
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Citizens Advice St Albans & District
£11,317 15/11/2019
We want to offer residents of Redbourn a weekly drop-in service – we currently have to turn one-in-four people away due to high demand.
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Disability Benefits Projects
£64,650 11/11/2019
Continuation of Disability Project (A490744) but with added districts.
National Lottery Community Fund - IT Systems Upgrade
£10,000 22/08/2019
12
IT Systems Upgrade
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Grant to Citizens Advice St Albans District
£7,500 25/03/2019
8
Increasing our capacity to help people
The MSE Charity - Grant to Citizens Advice St Albans
£6,050 15/11/2018
Financial capability support for dementia carers
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Helping disabled people access Welfare Benefits
£49,400 08/10/2018
11
Grant to CAB St Albans
National Lottery Community Fund - Advising Universal Credit Claimants
£9,900 13/12/2017
12
This project will support people in difficult circumstances by offering them financial advice.
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Reopening an advice service in Harpenden
£9,350 05/10/2017
12
Grant to Citizens Advice St Albans District
National Lottery Community Fund - Linked Advice Services (LAS)
£218,719 19/04/2013
24
This project led by St Albans and District Citizens Advice Bureau (SADCAB) aims to develop and expand the existing Local Advice Services Hub (LASH) to improve services for customers and embed ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 39-74
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 01/11/1994, number: 1041830
  • Registered at Companies House on 19/09/1994, number: 02969165
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
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
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Main office

Civic Centre
St Peters Street
St Albans
AL1 3JE

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 ST ALBANS DISTRICT AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

ST ALBANS DISTRICT

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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