Epping Forest District Citizens Advice Bureau

Analysis

Epping Forest District Citizens Advice Bureau is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Epping. It was registered in March 2007, 19 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 05852220). It says it provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Epping Forest District Citizens Advice Bureau reported income of £236k and spending of £303k, spending 129% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £304k to £236k (-23%), an average of -6.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income dropped by 23%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Epping Forest 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 Furniturelink (£236k), The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Peter with St Owen and St James, Hereford (£236k) and The Steve Sinnott Foundation (£235k).

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.