Peterborough Citizens Advice Bureau

Analysis

Peterborough Citizens Advice Bureau is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Peterborough. It was registered in February 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 03507549). It says it provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Peterborough Citizens Advice Bureau reported income of £369k and spending of £500k, spending 136% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £689k to £369k (-46%), an average of -14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income dropped by 48%. Over the whole period it spent 107% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Peterborough Citizens Advice Bureau sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Melton Mowbray (£368k), The Happold Foundation (£369k) and Bangladesh Youth and Cultural Shomiti (£368k).