Citizens Advice East Lancashire

Analysis

Citizens Advice East Lancashire is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Burnley. It was registered in October 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 05540011). It says it provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Citizens Advice East Lancashire reported income of £1.7m and spending of £1.5m, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £407k to £1.7m (+311%), an average of +42% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 136%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Citizens Advice East Lancashire sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% 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 The Marsh Christian Trust (£1.7m), The Ian and Clare Mattioli Charitable Trust (£1.7m) and Muslim Welfare Institute (£1.7m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 89%. Charitable activities took 100% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Reserves of £1.1m would cover about 8 months of spending at that rate. It employed 44 people.