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    CITIZENS ADVICE MENDIP

    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
    31/03/23£394£649£-254n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/22*£834£809£26£0£163£1512.21435
    31/03/21£393£432£-39n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/20£345£447£-103n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/19£465£472£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/18£465£456£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/17£476£490£-14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/16£519£548£-30£0£291£2425.3110
    31/03/15£531£460£71£4£320£2336.1120
    31/03/14£461£427£33n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/13£389£384£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/12£411£396£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/11£409£408£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/10£423£413£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/09£401£395£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/08£374£372£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/07£356£365£-9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/06£402£353£49n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/05£253£248£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/04£221£215£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a

    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Balance Sheet History
    Established: 27 years
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    UN SDGs
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    Listed activities
    • Accommodation/Housing
    • Disability
    • Economic/Community Development/Employment
    • Education/Training
    • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
    • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
    • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
    GiG Classification
    • Practical support, advice & companionship
    How it operates
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Bath And North East Somerset, Bristol City, North Somerset, Somerset, Wiltshire,
    Who it helps
    • Children/Young People
    • Elderly/Old People
    • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
    • People With Disabilities
    • 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
    Somerset Community Foundation£60,905
    National Lottery Community Fund£36,728
    Quartet Community Foundation£24,308
    Postcode Local Trust£18,392
    DCMS£4,000
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Citizens Advice Mendip
    £6,875 02/06/2023
    As requested by the donor towards debt advice.
    Somerset Community Foundation - Training online advisers to spot the signs and to act on cases of domestic violence
    £2,396 10/03/2023
    Grant to Citizens Advice Mendip
    National Lottery Community Fund - Citizens Advice Mendip - In touch with our community
    £8,760 10/03/2023
    The funding will be used to promote and deliver an online service where people will be provided with the opportunity to access advice information and signposting with regards to issues pertaining to them with the aim of reducing the effects of ....more
    Somerset Community Foundation - Specialist advice for people with mental health difficulties
    £4,000 28/02/2023
    Grant to Citizens Advice Mendip
    Somerset Community Foundation - Increasing the capacity of debt and money advice services in response to the cost-of-living crisis
    £3,106 01/02/2023
    Grant to Citizens Advice Mendip
    Somerset Community Foundation - Training and supervising additional volunteer advisors to meet the demand caused by the cost of living crisis
    £2,869 12/12/2022
    Training and supervising additional volunteer advisors to meet the demand caused by the cost of living crisis
    Somerset Community Foundation - Providing direct financial support to help older people stay warm over the winter
    £8,550 27/10/2022
    Grant to Citizens Advice Mendip
    Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Citizens Advice Mendip
    £6,840 09/06/2022
    As advised by donor towards debt advice.
    Somerset Community Foundation - Business development to consolidate the transition to online volunteer advice services
    £6,189 24/05/2022
    Business development to consolidate the transition to online volunteer advice services
    Postcode Local Trust - Strengthen Our Digital Accessible Support – streamline our recruitment service r
    £18,392 26/03/2022
    This funding ensured our publicly accessible information was updated, relevant, and providing a link into CA Mendip for the community
    Somerset Community Foundation - Training online advisers to spot the signs and to act on cases of domestic violence
    £2,676 23/12/2021
    Training online advisers to spot the signs and to act on cases of domestic violence
    Somerset Community Foundation - Grant to Citizens Advice Mendip
    £2,869 26/11/2021
    We need to increase our paid session supervisor hours to enable us to expand, manage and monitor our volunteer pool allowing us to help more clients in need.
    Somerset Community Foundation - Surviving Winter - small grants to help older people stay warm this winter
    £4,950 29/10/2021
    Surviving Winter - small grants to help older people stay warm this winter
    Co-Operative Group - Grant to Citizens Advice Mendip
    £843 23/10/2021
    During recent months we have seen that our volunteers can help more people when working from home, however we need to buy more laptops to help with this.
    National Lottery Community Fund - Citizens Advice Mendip Online and In touch
    £9,160 09/07/2021
    The organisation will use the funding to employ a social media and online coordinator to support the increased demand for their online services due to the pandemic with volunteers working from home.
    Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Citizens Advice Mendip
    £4,293 10/06/2021
    As advised by donor
    Somerset Community Foundation - Surviving Winter 2020/21
    £8,800 18/12/2020
    3
    Small grants to help older people stay warm in winter
    Somerset Community Foundation - COVID19 IT and mobile phones to increase remote service provision
    £2,500 14/12/2020
    3
    Grant to Citizens Advice Mendip
    Somerset Community Foundation - Small grants to purchase white goods, carpets etc. to help homeless people move into independent living
    £10,000 20/10/2020
    13
    Small grants to purchase white goods, carpets etc. to help homeless people move into independent living
    DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
    £4,000 04/09/2020
    "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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
    Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Citizens Advice Mendip
    £6,300 18/06/2020
    As advised by donor
    National Lottery Community Fund - Increase the number of volunteers providing crisis online and telephone support
    £9,782 22/05/2020
    14
    The funding will be used to increase the number of volunteers providing crisis online and telephone support. The project aims to support people impacted by Covid-19 and to help answer their concerns.
    Somerset Community Foundation - COVID19 Virtual volunteer-led advice service
    £2,000 30/03/2020
    Virtual volunteer-led advice service
    National Lottery Community Fund - Children's Voices - The Next Generation
    £9,026 24/02/2020
    11
    The funding will enable the project to build on previous work by offering young people aged 15-25 inter generational support and understanding of domestic financial matters which will be delivered in a variety of community settings such as youth ....more
    Quartet Community Foundation - Children's Voices ~ Changing Choices
    £5,000 18/03/2019
    11
    Towards the cost of delivering the Children's Voices ~ Changing Choices project.
    Somerset Community Foundation - Children's Voices ~ Changing Choices
    £4,489 14/12/2018
    11
    Financial literacy programme across seven schools.
    National Lottery Community Fund - Childrens voices, changing choices
    £8,855 14/12/2018
    12
    The funding will be used to deliver financial literacy training to school children. The project aims to develop life skills and learning.
    Somerset Community Foundation - Surviving Winter 2018/19
    £3,000 06/12/2018
    3
    Small grants to help older people stay warm in winter
    Quartet Community Foundation - Children's Voices Changing Choices
    £10,000 03/01/2018
    11
    To continue the delivery of the Children's Voices Changing Choices project that aims to improve children's understanding of domestic financial matters.
    Somerset Community Foundation - Childrens Voices Changing Choices
    £3,000 20/06/2017
    8
    Financial literacy projct for young people
    Somerset Community Foundation - Surviving Winter 2016/17
    £4,750 12/12/2016
    8
    Small grants to help older people stay warm in winter.
    National Lottery Community Fund - Mendip Mobile Advice Hub for the Villages
    £220,750 19/04/2013
    36
    The aim of this new project is to develop a rural information hub, to take advice to residents, using a community advice van equipped with mobile phones and laptop computers.The project have previous experience of running a similar service from 1990 ....more
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 03/06/1997, number: 1062605
    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
    • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
    • 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
    20 returns made; AR22: 37 days late,
    Main office


    Objectives

    PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION,THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS

    Defined Area of Benefit:

    NOT DEFINED

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving

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