Finance Score: -2

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 10

Low unrestricted reserves: -2

Only 4 Trustees: -1
Good trustee age range: +3
All male board: -3

Overall weighted support: +10

Overall GiG Score: 7

MEDWAY DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU SERVICE

Provides an advice and advocacy service on the many and varied problems that arise in daily life. These include information and advice on a whole range of issues: family and personal; welfare benefits; housing and homelessness; taxation; money advice and personal debt; immigration and nationality; consumer; and employment.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
Why are there only 4 trustees?
Why is the Board completely male?

Financial issues to consider:

Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end

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		£854	£779	£74	£0	£709	£18	0.3	13	65
31/03/22		£956	£1,078	£-122	£0	£635	£588	6.5	13	70
31/03/21		£1,615	£1,212	£403	£0	£757	£582	5.8	15	75
31/03/20		£822	£809	£12	£0	£354	£339	5	13	70
31/03/19		£782	£741	£41	£0	£342	£331	5.4	21	76
31/03/18		£779	£753	£26	£0	£301	£299	4.8	18	0
31/03/17		£728	£712	£16	£0	£276	£273	4.6	20	0
31/03/16		£797	£791	£7	£0	£260	£215	3.3	21	0
31/03/15		£985	£974	£11	£0	£253	£103	1.3	0	0
31/03/14		£971	£854	£118	£0	£243	£101	1.4	35	0
31/03/13		£853	£803	£50	£0	£125	£83	1.2	35	0
31/03/12		£784	£755	£29	£6	£75	£72	1.1	31	0
31/03/11	*	£755	£749	£5	£729	£46	£42	0.7	34	0
31/03/10	*	£783	£781	£2	£761	£41	£42	0.7	31	0
31/03/09		£567	£700	£-133	£681	£39	£16	0.3	29	0
31/03/08	*	£518	£493	£25	£474	£173	£139	3.4	29	0
31/03/07	*	£0	£0	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 10%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 3%
Liabilities/Income: 2%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 3%
Reserves/Spending: 0.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 10 months
Quick Ratio: 33.7

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Balance Sheet History

Established: 18 years

www.medwayadvice.org.uk

info@cabmedwayadvice.org.uk

07889535363

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Legal & financial advice

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information

Where it operates

Kent, Medway,

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

National Lottery Community Fund	£359,214
DCMS	£88,250
Access to Justice Foundation	£75,000
Postcode Society Trust	£40,000
Henry Smith Charity	£10,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Postcode Society Trust - Millionaire Street 2023 10w4
£40,000	02/11/2023	Funding helped to launch an advice bus- CAMILA
National Lottery Community Fund - Medway Resilience
£349,248	30/09/2022	This funding will support Medway Citizens Advice Bureau to deliver face to face debt and benefit advice to disadvantaged communities in Medway. The project aims to ensure local people have appropriate face to face access to debt and benefit advice ....more This funding will support Medway Citizens Advice Bureau to deliver face to face debt and benefit advice to disadvantaged communities in Medway. The project aims to ensure local people have appropriate face to face access to debt and benefit advice to better manage difficult financial circumstances exacerbated by recent cost of living increases.
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£75,000	07/09/2020	A flexible grant as part of wave 1 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID19
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£88,250	11/08/2020	"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 "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 services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
National Lottery Community Fund - Expansion of Hate Crime Response Unit
£9,966	03/02/2020 11	The funding will be used to expand the group's hate crime response service. The project aims to bring people together and provide support for people in the community who have experienced hate crime.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Medway Citizens Advice Bureau
£10,000	10/12/2019 12	towards one year's running costs of a ‘Hate Crime Project’, to support victims of hate crime in Medway, Kent
National Lottery Community Fund - Digital Champions project
£9,050	13/09/2018 12	The funding will be used by the Citizen's Advice Bureau in Medway to cover training, travel and other administrative tasks.
National Lottery Community Fund - Creating a Hate Crime Response Unit at CAB
£9,850	19/04/2017 12	This organisation will use funding to implement a hate crime response unit, providing those who have experienced hate crime with appropriate advice and counselling, with the aim of reducing anxiety and associated health inequalities.
National Lottery Community Fund - POSITIVE FUTURES
£349,406	19/04/2013 24	The aim of this new project, evidenced through consultation and research, is to increase the channels of advice through creating advice hubs, podcasts, outreach sessions, a 24hour telephone and text service and delivering 'Listen Up' and 'Bounce ....more The aim of this new project, evidenced through consultation and research, is to increase the channels of advice through creating advice hubs, podcasts, outreach sessions, a 24hour telephone and text service and delivering 'Listen Up' and 'Bounce Back' budgeting sessions.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 45-81

ALAN DAVID BUCKETT Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Retired

DAVID JOHN AINSLEY (Chair) Appointed: 2007, Occupation: Retired

OLIVER DAVID MARTIN Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Senior Manager

PETER MURRAY Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Insolvency Examiner

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 01/08/2006, number: 1115644
Registered at Companies House on 20/09/2005, number: 05568569

Gift Aid

NOT 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
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
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
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

17 returns made; AR11: 36 days late, AR10: 12 days late, AR08: 1 days late, AR07: 63 days late,

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from KENT AND MEDWAY CITIZENS ADVICE on 27/03/2020

Main office

KINGSLEY HOUSE
37-39 BALMORAL ROAD
GILLINGHAM
KENT
ME7 4PF

Objectives

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT (COMPRISING THE MEDWAY TOWNS AND THE IMMEDIATELY SURROUNDING AREA) BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE MEDWAY TOWNS AND THE IMMEDIATELY SURROUNDING AREA

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