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Registered charity · Essex

Citizens Advice Braintree & South Essex Limited

Citizens Advice Braintree & South Essex Limited is a registered charity (number 1113231) based in Essex, governed by 9 trustees and chaired by Stuart Robert Freel since 2019. Latest income £1.5m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

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...

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £1.5m (2025)
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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing and 1 more
Where
Essex, Thurrock
Website
www.cabse.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Citizens Advice Braintree & South Essex Limited
Registered
2006

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.5m£1.6m
  • 2024£1.4m£1.5m
  • 2023£1.1m£1.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.2m£1.1m
  • 2021£999k£956k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 41%. 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 the community in the local authority areas of Basildon, Braintree, Brentwood, Castle Point, Rochford, Thurrock and surrounding areas

Grants received

10 grants · £719,079 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

Most recent

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.

9 trustees on the board

5.3y median 6y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

9
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 9General Charitable Purposes 9The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 9

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 10Finance 6Health and social care 3

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£1.5m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

3.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 5.2 in 2021

53 from 35 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1113231
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 19/10/2005AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 03/06/2008AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 31/10/2013AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 13 MAR 2018 as amended on 24 Mar 2018 as amended on 22 Mar 2019 as amended on 24 Apr 2019 as amended on 03 Oct 2023 as amended on 22 Jan 2025 as amended on 28 Jan 2025
Companies House
Company number 05596895 · Active
Contact on the register
01277358081 · info@cabse.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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