Coventry Citizens Advice

Analysis

Coventry Citizens Advice is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Coventry. It was registered in October 1990, 36 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 02122698). It says it provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Coventry Citizens Advice reported income of £1.8m and spending of £1.7m, spending 97% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £2.3m to £1.8m (-22%), an average of -6.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income dropped by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Coventry Citizens Advice sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 97% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Keren Association Limited (£1.8m), Rothesay Foundation (£1.8m) and The 1959 Group of Charities (£1.7m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 98% and donations and legacies 1.1%. Charitable activities took 82% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Reserves of £202k would cover about 1 months of spending at that rate. It employed 42 people.