The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

Citizens Advice Braintree & South Essex Limited

Registered charity 1113231 Registered since 2006

Operates: Essex, Thurrock

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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.

9 trustees on the board

5.3y median 6y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.6y
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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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.

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.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.cabse.org.uk
Emailinfo@cabse.org.uk
Phone01277358081
AddressCitizens Advice, The Basildon Centre, St. Martins Square, BASILDON, Essex, SS14 1DL

Finances

£1,529,062 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£999,384£956,319
2022£1,194,945£1,113,818
2023£1,050,482£1,142,124
2024£1,423,580£1,477,788
2025£1,529,062£1,586,241

What it does

What

General Charitable PurposesDisabilityThe Prevention Or Relief Of PovertyAccommodation/housingEconomic/community Development/employment

Who

Children/young PeopleElderly/old PeoplePeople With DisabilitiesPeople Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial OriginOther Charities Or Voluntary BodiesOther Defined GroupsThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides Advocacy/advice/information

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

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

Trustees (9)

9trustees
58median age
3aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Citizens Advice Braintree & South Essex Limited · 05596895 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 19/10/2005

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (0)

No charities share a trustee (from current data).

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