Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 5

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

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

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 13

CITIZENS ADVICE GOSPORT

The Bureau is established for the promotion of any charitable purpose for the benefit of the community of Gosport by the advancement of education, protection of health and the relief of poverty, sickness and distress. We achieve this by providing free, independent and impartial advice to the Gosport community.

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 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

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	£356	£347	£9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	38
31/03/22	£299	£360	£-62	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	38
31/03/21	£377	£308	£69	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	18
31/03/20	£249	£249	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	35
31/03/19	£211	£217	£-7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	55
31/03/18	£195	£183	£12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	£194	£195	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	£295	£264	£31	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	£302	£319	£-17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	£225	£237	£-11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	£177	£166	£12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	£162	£160	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	£171	£172	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	£166	£162	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	£107	£107	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	£103	£107	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 17 years

www.gosportcab.org.uk

co@gosport.cabnet.org.uk

02392520112

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Accommodation/Housing
Disability
Economic/Community Development/Employment
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

Advice organisations

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information

Where it operates

Hampshire,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
38 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

Department for Work and Pensions	£14,711
National Lottery Community Fund	£10,000
The MSE Charity	£7,395

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Household Support Service
£10,000	13/01/2023	The funding will be used to run a household support service which will provide emergency relief to disadvantaged people by working in partnership with local services and offering advice. The project ....more The funding will be used to run a household support service which will provide emergency relief to disadvantaged people by working in partnership with local services and offering advice. The project aims to improve the health and wellbeing of vulnerable people and enabling their needs to be met during the cost of living crisis.
The MSE Charity - Grant to Citizens Advice Gosport
£7,395	15/09/2022	Cost of Living Crisis Support- Funding an experienced case-worker to deliver 19 hours per week for 6 months to deliver emergency money and debt support to a minimun of 60 households in Gosport.
Department for Work and Pensions - BRENIN ADVENTURES
£14,711	01/04/2021	To support customers aged 18-24 to be ready to take up kickstart vacancies.
National Lottery Community Fund - Gosport Advice and Information Network (GAIN)
£252,000	25/04/2013 36	The aim of the new project will see Gosport CAB (GCAB) lead a partnership with 5 other organisations to promote collaborative working to improve the current advice service in the areas of welfare ....more The aim of the new project will see Gosport CAB (GCAB) lead a partnership with 5 other organisations to promote collaborative working to improve the current advice service in the areas of welfare benefits, debt, employment and housing that is available to all the residents of Gosport.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Gosport CAB
£29,400	29/10/2012	the salary costs of the Advice Session Supervisor, rent, volunteer travel expenses and office costs

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 26-79

ANNA ADAMS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Civil Servant

ANTHONY DYER Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Financial Director

CHARLES JOHN HARRISON NICHOLAS Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Commercial Director

DAVID ANDREW HENRY BRYANT Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired

THOMAS MICHAEL ARNOLD Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Mechanical Engineer

HEATHER KATHLEEN BLADES Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired

MR RICHARD MACKAY, Occupation: Chartered Accountant, Other trusteeship: CITIZENS ADVICE HAMPSHIRE,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 24/11/2006, number: 1116994
Registered at Companies House on 18/10/2006, number: 05971208

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
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

16 returns made; all on time

Main office

CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU
MARTIN SNAPE HOUSE
96 PAVILION WAY
GOSPORT
PO12 1GE

Objectives

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN GOSPORT AND SURROUNDING AREAS (THE 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:

GOSPORT AND SURROUNDING AREAS

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