Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 4
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

C.A.B. DEVON

to promote any charitable purpose for the public benefit by the advancement of education, the protection and preservation of health and the relief of poverty, sickness and distress in particular, but without limitation, for the benefit of the community in Devon and surrounding areas.
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:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender 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£795£785£9£0£65£65110
31/03/22£977£971£5£0£56£560.710
31/03/21£935£926£9£0£50£500.710
31/03/20£841£852£-11£0£41£310.410
31/03/19£750£754£-4£0£52£490.810
31/03/18£708£703£5£0£56£56110
31/03/17£748£757£-9£0£51£410.720
31/03/16£879£838£41£0£60£400.600
31/03/15£530£518£12£0£19£160.410
31/03/14£544£541£2£3£7£70.100
31/03/13*£431£427£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 5%
Liabilities/Income: 0%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 16.9
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 12 years

www.cabdevon.org.uk

businessdevelopment@cabdevon.org.uk

01392208120

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Disability
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Other welfare services
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Devon, Plymouth City, Torbay,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Access to Justice Foundation - Legal Support for Litigants in Person Grant
£272,941 24/09/2020
LSLIP is a two-year project funded by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). It aims to enhance services that support the earliest possible interventions for litigants in person reducing the risk of their problems escalating. To develop our understanding of ....more
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£73,196 16/07/2020
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
National Lottery Community Fund - Volunteering for Citizens Advice
£9,924 10/01/2020
11
The funding will be used to employ specialist marketing and communication staff so that they can run a county wide recruitment drive to increase their volunteer base and provide adequate service cover to meet the demands of the people who benefit ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Promotion of digital advice service
£9,898 04/06/2018
12
The project will raise awareness of online and phone services, enabling clients to address and answer their own queries.
National Lottery Community Fund - Devon Adviceline
£10,000 28/06/2012
12
This is a project by a community organisation in Exeter, Devon. The group will use the funding to set up a helpline for the community.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 28-82
  • ALEXANDER ALDER-WESTLAKE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director
  • CHRISTOPHER ELLIOTT MOTTRAM Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Retired
  • EDWINA BRADSHAW Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Director
  • JILLY COLLINS Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Magistrate
  • KEITH JOHN ROUTLEDGE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director
  • KIM MCDONALD Appointed: 2022
  • MATTHEW BYRNE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 11/07/2012, number: 1148060
  • Registered at Companies House on 05/03/2012, number: 07975636
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
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
  • 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
Filing Record
11 returns made; AR13: 5 days late,
Main office

Citizens Advice Bureau
Dix's Field
EXETER
EX1 1QA

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS IN PARTICULAR, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN DEVON AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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