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Southwark Citizens Advice Bureaux Service

Registered charity 1070263 Registered since 1998

Operates: Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark

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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.

7 trustees on the board

3.2y median 3y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

7
company-linked trustees

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

Economic/community Development/employment 7Education/training 7The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 7

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

Tech and media 7Professional services 1

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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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£2.1m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

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

38 from 48 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.
81%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.citizensadvicesouthwark.org.uk
Emailfinance@citizensadvicesouthwark.org.uk
Phone080 8278 7849
Address6 Westmoreland Road, LONDON, SE17 2AY

Finances

£2,072,811 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£1,802,146£1,801,868
2022£1,784,870£1,826,013
2023£1,596,751£1,692,535
2024£1,934,080£1,744,957
2025£2,072,811£1,990,370

What it does

What

Education/trainingThe Prevention Or Relief Of PovertyEconomic/community Development/employment

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Provides Advocacy/advice/information

Charitable objects

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 THE LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 9TH FEBRUARY 1998, AS AMENDED 3 JUNE 2010.

Trustees (7)

7trustees
46median age
1aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Southwark Citizens Advice Bureaux Service · 03507093 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 09/02/1998

3 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (0)

No charities share a trustee (from current data).

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