Overall GiG Score: 15 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 6
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +6

CITIZENS ADVICE SERVICES CORBY & KETTERING 

Citizens Advice Services Corby & Kettering provide a free, confidential, impartial and independant advice service to the residents of the Boroughs of Corby & Kettering and surrounding villages.
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

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: 17 years

volunteerdevelopment@casck.co.uk

01536265501

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
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£361£373£-12n/an/an/an/an/a17
31/03/22£400£353£47n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/03/21£421£353£68n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/20£373£369£4n/an/an/an/an/a25
31/03/19£364£340£24n/an/an/an/an/a22
31/03/18£344£326£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£279£321£-42£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£376£385£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£454£455£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£431£399£32£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£323£324£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£232£289£-57£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£336£290£46£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£320£286£33£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£273£232£41£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£114£97£16£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 17 volunteers
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
Where it operates
  • Northamptonshire,

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
Henry Smith Charity£140,000
National Lottery Community Fund£17,932
Northamptonshire Community Foundation£3,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - Help and Advice Line
£3,000 23/01/2023
To support their Help and Advice Line
National Lottery Community Fund - Building volunteer capacity
£9,932 25/11/2022
The funding will be used to recruit train equip and support 15+ volunteers to build capacity to meet local demand for advice during the ongoing cost of living crisis. The project aims to help people ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Citizens Advice Corby and Kettering
£140,000 06/05/2021
12
towards three years' continuation funding of a project providing specialist advice on welfare benefits, debt and financial capability for disadvantaged communities in Corby and Kettering, ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Covid Equipment
£8,000 22/05/2020
12
The funding will be used to purchase new equipment for the citizens advice service. The project aims to increase the capacity of the organisation to provide community support during the Covid-19 ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Citizens Advice Corby and Kettering
£123,600 13/06/2018
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing specialist advice on welfare benefits, debt and financial capability to disadvantaged communities in Northamptonshire
National Lottery Community Fund - Housing Health In the Community
£9,946 31/01/2018
12
This charity will improve its services that support the needs of people who are experiencing the effects of homelessness or who are at risk of becoming homeless.
National Lottery Community Fund - Shop & Advice Collaboration Partnership
£338,500 25/04/2013
24
The aim of this new project will see Citizens Advice Services Corby & Kettering (CASCK) become the lead of a four organisation partnership to deliver a new integrated advice service, accessed ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 42-81
  • JOY LYMAN Appointed: 2007, Occupation: Civil Servant
  • PAUL CLARKE (Chair) Appointed: 2014, Occupation: H R Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 04/05/2007, number: 1119081
  • Registered at Companies House on 13/03/2007, number: 06156809
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
  • 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 Services
The Corby Cube
Parkland Gateway
George Street
CORBY
NN17 1QG

Objectives

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN CORBY 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:

CORBY

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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