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Registered charity · London

The RCJ and Islington Citizens Advice Bureaux

  • 18 trustees
  • Income £3.3m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.rcjadvice.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The RCJ and Islington Citizens Advice Bureaux
Registered
1995

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.3m£3.6m
  • 2024£4.1m£4.1m
  • 2023£4.1m£3.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.3m£3.2m
  • 2021£3.4m£3.6m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 6% · Government grants 61%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

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 THOSE HAVING BUSINESS AT THE ROYAL COURTS OF JUSTICE AND OTHERS LIVING OR WORKING THROUGHOUT ENGLAND AND WALES, IN PARTICULAR IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF ISLINGTON AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

Grants received

51 grants · £8,881,889 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Ministry of Justice · £3,702,059 (9 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £1,675,078 (4 grants)
  • Access to Justice Foundation · £1,582,558 (6 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £649,889
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport · £521,430

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Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

6.1y median 6y
average tenure
23y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.8y
average years in governance
16
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Disability 18Education/training 18General Charitable Purposes 18

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Business services 22Property 10Professional services 6

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£3.3m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

2.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

52 from 61 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
67%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1050358
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 06/10/1995AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/04/1998NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 18/05/2011AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 26/05/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25 AUG 2016AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 13 OCT 2016AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 12 SEP 2016 as amended on 21 Aug 2024
Companies House
Company number 03110908 · Active
Contact on the register
020 3475 4373 · feedback@rcjadvice.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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