Fareham Citizens Advice Bureau

Analysis

Fareham Citizens Advice Bureau is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Fareham. It was registered in July 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and human rights/religious or racial harmony/equality or diversity, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 07653014). It says it provides advocacy/advice/information and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Fareham Citizens Advice Bureau reported income of £257k and spending of £210k, spending 82% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £254k to £257k (+1.0%), an average of +0.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Fareham Citizens Advice Bureau sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Holy Trinity, Barnstaple (£256k), Holy Island of Lindisfarne Community Development Trust (£257k) and River Church Sutton (£256k).