Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 3

No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +3

Overall GiG Score: 12

BRAINTREE HALSTEAD AND WITHAM CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU

The Citizens Advice service helps people resolve their legal, money and other problems by providing free, independent and confidential advice, and by influencing policymakers.Braintree, Halstead & Witham Citizens Advice Bureau is a registered charity reliant on trained volunteers and funds to provide these vital services for local communities.

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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Over half the Board have joined recently

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: 21 years

www.bhwcab.org.uk/

admin.office@bhwcab.org.uk

01376515235

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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	£241	£254	£-14	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	18
31/03/22	£297	£261	£36	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	21
31/03/21	£265	£201	£64	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	18
31/03/20	£211	£194	£17	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	23
31/03/19	£199	£258	£-59	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	33
31/03/18	£260	£269	£-9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	£266	£273	£-7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	£273	£297	£-24	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	£272	£253	£19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	£261	£246	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	£271	£246	£25	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	£264	£250	£14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	£224	£238	£-14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	£235	£224	£11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	£208	£204	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	£202	£187	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	£183	£165	£18	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	£219	£224	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	£240	£181	£59	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	£0	£0	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

General Charitable Purposes
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information

Where it operates

Essex,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
18 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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Braintree Halstead and Witham Citizens Advice Bureau
£38,074	04/02/2021 24	towards an outreach service supporting disabled people in Braintree district over two years
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Citizens Advice Bureau - Braintree, Halstead & Witham
£7,380	03/07/2020	to provide resources, adaptations and training to expand remote advice support due to increased demand caused by COVID19
Essex Community Foundation - Braintree Outreach Service
£8,960	17/05/2019 11	To help establish an outreach service in Braintree

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 28-75

ANDREW GORDON BALFOUR Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Retired Solicitor, Other trusteeship: ST CLARE WEST ESSEX HOSPICE CARE TRUST,

DEREK WOTTON (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeships: 'SIGNALS' ESSEX MEDIA CENTRE LTD, Citizens Advice Braintree & South Essex Limited,

HELEN LOUISE GILFILLAN Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Hr Consultant

JAYNE AINSWORTH Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Business Executive

JOHN EVANS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired

LYNN TALBOT Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Management Consultant, Other trusteeship: Citizens Advice Braintree & South Essex Limited,

NADIA MCLEOD Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Local Government Officer

STUART FREEL Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Education Consultant

THOMAS HARRISON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired

WILLIAM JONES Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeship: Citizens Advice Braintree & South Essex Limited,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/09/2003, number: 1099232
Registered at Companies House on 22/04/2003, number: 04740710

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
Investing charity funds 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
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; all on time

Main office

BHW Citizens Advice
Public Hall
Collingwood Road
Witham
Essex
CM8 2DY

Objectives

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN BRAINTREE DISTRICT AND SURROUNDING AREA (AREA OF BENEFIT) BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE COMMUNITY IN BRAINTREE DISTRICT AND SURROUNDING AREA

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