Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 9
  • Volatile income
  • spending growth: -1
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

REDBRIDGE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU 

Our services are free, confidential, independent & impartial, providing advice & information in Redbridge. We campaign to influence the development of social policies & ensure individuals do not suffer through lack of knowledge. In addition to generalist advice, we provide specialist advisory services in debt, welfare benefits and employment. We offer volunteering opportunities in various roles.
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

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Income has been volatile recently but spending has been maintained
Established: 22 years

www.citizensadviceredbridge.org.uk

admin@citizensadviceredbridge.org.uk

02085143648

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseX
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£408£498£-90n/an/an/an/an/a56
31/03/22£603£590£13£0£167£1342.71543
31/03/21£550£464£86£0£154£1373.51960
31/03/20£380£366£14n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/03/19£264£268£-4n/an/an/an/an/a44
31/03/18£258£288£-29£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£333£355£-22£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£399£399£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£336£368£-32£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£283£249£34£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£282£251£32£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£234£243£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£241£240£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£203£192£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£182£157£25£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£187£164£23£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£186£202£-16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£175£196£-21£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£221£212£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£315£297£17£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Redbridge,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 56 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
Trust for London£208,700
City Bridge Trust£109,625
DCMS£42,500
The London Community Foundation£9,700
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Trust for London - Citizens Advice Redbridge
£14,500 29/09/2022
This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-05.10.2021-9323
Trust for London - Citizens Advice Redbridge
£145,000 09/02/2022
The funding is for provision of employment legal advice, assistance and (where possible) representation, on all aspects of employment law for people who live and work in Redbridge. This will empower ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Redbridge Citizens Advice Bureau
£97,500 10/09/2021
24
£97,500 over two further and final years (£48,500; £49,000) for the GP Outreach Project Coordinator’s (35 hpw) salary and project costs associated with the GP Outreach Project.
Trust for London - Redbridge Citizens Advice Bureau
£49,200 15/03/2021
This funding is to pilot a community-based partnership approach to advice giving. A Community Resilience Coordinator will train and support three communities organisations so that they can offer ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£42,500 23/10/2020
"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
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Redbridge Citizens Advice Bureau
£9,700 09/10/2020
The funding is to provide specialist advice and casework to people experiencing domestic abuse/VAWG in Redbridge, which has increased exponentially since the onset of the pandemic. The funding will ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Redbridge Citizens Advice Bureau
£12,125 09/04/2020
A one-off, unrestricted grant of £12,125, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisation’s current grant. COVID19
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Redbridge Citizens Advice Bureau
£142,400 02/05/2018
36
£142,400 over three years (£47,500; £48,500; £46,400) for the part-time Outreach Project Officer's salary, other existing staff time and towards project costs of the GP referral project.
National Lottery Community Fund - Welfare Reforms Advice Project Redbridge (WRAP Redbridge)
£245,386 24/03/2015
36
Not Available
National Lottery Community Fund - Redbridge Advice Network (RAN)
£313,621 19/04/2013
24
The aim of this project, which builds on earlier work, is to create a sustainable inter-agency advice network in Redbridge capable of maximising and increasing the resources available to local advice ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - RCAB Volunteer Training & Development Project
£229,551 11/02/2010
60
This Ilford-based initiative provides members of the local community with a chance to undertake accredited volunteer advisor training and to develop new skills which contribute to personal ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 34-81
  • NADIA QAYUM Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Operations Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 05/04/2002, number: 1091547
  • Registered at Companies House on 10/07/2001, number: 04249530
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
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR05: 1 days late,
Main office

1st Floor
Redbridge Central Library
Ilford
Essex
IG1 4DU

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF REDBRIDGE BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

REDBRIDGE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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