Citizens Advice Braintree & South Essex Limited

Analysis

Citizens Advice Braintree & South Essex Limited is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Essex. It was registered in March 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, disability, the prevention or relief of poverty and accommodation/housing, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 05596895). It says it provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Citizens Advice Braintree & South Essex Limited reported income of £1.5m and spending of £1.6m, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £999k to £1.5m (+53%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 36%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Citizens Advice Braintree & South Essex Limited sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Dreamflight (£1.5m), Nottingham Mencap (£1.5m) and Caretrade Charitable Trust (£1.5m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 99%. Charitable activities took 100% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Reserves of £509k would cover about 4 months of spending at that rate. It employed 53 people.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.