Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 4
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 6 ?

CITIZENS ADVICE WAVERLEY 

To help people from all sectors of the Waverley Community to resolve their problems through the provision of high quality information, advice and advocacy.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • 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 gender

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
  • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 21 years

www.waverleycab.org.uk

finance@waverleycab.cabnet.org.uk

01483869599

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/05/23?£1,300£1,616£-316£0£85£0n/a35137
31/03/22£987£959£28£1£401£1682.134145
31/03/21£918£762£155£0£373£1592.532114
31/03/20£703£630£73£5£218£1292.515137
31/03/19£364£341£23n/an/an/an/an/a131
31/03/18£361£370£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£380£419£-38£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£484£529£-45£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£515£461£54£2£218£1143100
31/03/14£406£387£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£315£331£-16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£370£343£28£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£399£376£24£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£380£379£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£333£337£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£346£360£-14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07?£394£405£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£201£134£67£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£118£110£8£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 59%
Liabilities/Income: 11%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 0%
Reserves/Spending: 0 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: -1 months
Quick Ratio: 0
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Surrey,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 35 employees
  • 137 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Community Foundation for Surrey£76,501
DCMS£9,728
National Lottery Community Fund£6,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Community Foundation for Surrey - Creation of a District Wide Training Venue
£10,000 07/12/2022
Funding for refurbishment of a potential training venue to make it fit for purpose to become a new staff training facility.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Information and advice service to help people impacted by the cost-of-living crisis ‘
£9,138 24/10/2022
Funding towards the core costs of supporting, managing and training volunteers at a Citizens Advice service.
National Lottery Community Fund - Campaign to combat domestic abuse in South West Surrey
£6,500 04/02/2022
The funding will be used to launch a promotional campaign to raise awareness about domestic abuse and the related available services for vulnerable people. The project aims to highlight the harm ....more
Community Foundation for Surrey - Specialist mental health counselling for adults and children affected by domestic abuse
£10,000 16/12/2021
12
Funding towards specialist mental health counselling for adult and children victims of domestic abuse.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Volunteer Co-ordinator Role
£9,100 21/07/2021
11
Funding towards the salary cost of a Volunteer Co-ordinator for a domestic abuse service that works within the Guildford and Waverley Boroughs.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,728 07/09/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
Community Foundation for Surrey - A contribution towards core costs for a charity addressing domestic abuse in Waverley and Guildford
£7,000 04/08/2020
11
A contribution towards core costs for a charity addressing domestic abuse in Waverley and Guildford
Community Foundation for Surrey - COVID19 - Domestic abuse
£5,000 05/05/2020
Funding for a Domestic Abuse charity to support children as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic
Community Foundation for Surrey - Covid 19 Response - Advice and support
£4,759 17/04/2020
IT provision for a Citizen's Advice to offer support to people in Waverley during the Coronavirus pandemic
Community Foundation for Surrey - Systems implementation, training and staffing
£12,950 16/01/2020
14
Funding to implement a specialist IT system for case management.
Community Foundation for Surrey - South West Surrey Domestic Abuse Outreach Service
£8,554 15/07/2019
11
Staff costs for development of Citizens Advice Waverley’s working partnership with South West Surrey Domestic Abuse Outreach Team.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Operational costs of Citizens Advice Waverley
£10,000 27/06/2018
11
Core costs for the running of Citizens Advice Waverley.
National Lottery Community Fund - Transforming Advice Services for clients in Waverley
£255,565 19/04/2013
36
The aim of this new project will see Citizens Advice Waverley (CAW) the lead of a partnership of ten organisations develop a collaborative advice service to improve outcomes for beneficiaries and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Expansion and improvement of the Citizens Advice service in Godalming
£10,000 12/08/2010
12
This voluntary group in Farnham will use funding to adapt a newly-aquired town centre premises. This will enable them to offer a significantly improved service, involving more volunteers, for the ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees:
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 05/08/2003, number: 1098859
  • Registered at Companies House on 07/07/2003, number: 04823693
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Financial Conduct Authority
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR04: 1 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from CITIZENS ADVICE SURREY on 04/02/2022
Main office

NEW MONTROSE HOUSE
36 BRIDGE STREET
GODALMING
SURREY
GU7 1HP

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY OF WAVERLEY AND THE SURROUNDING AREA ('THE AREA OF BENEFIT') BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PROMOTION OF THE PROTECTION OF ADULTS AND CHILDREN WHO HAVE SUFFERED FROM OR ARE EXPOSED TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BY SUCH MEANS AS ARE CHARITABLE INCLUDING (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF THEIR MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH, THE RELIEF OF NEED AND THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CONCERNING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

BOROUGH OF WAVERLEY AND THE SURROUNDING AREA

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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