Dunstable and District Citizens Advice Bureau

Analysis

Dunstable and District Citizens Advice Bureau is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Beds. It was registered in August 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover disability, the prevention or relief of poverty, accommodation/housing and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 05408107). It says it provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending March 2026, Dunstable and District Citizens Advice Bureau reported income of £230k and spending of £223k, spending 97% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2022 to March 2026, income grew from £178k to £230k (+29%), an average of +6.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Dunstable and District Citizens Advice Bureau sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Maxability (£230k), Sandwell Citizens Advocacy (£230k) and The Caribbean Collective (£230k).