Citizens Advice North East Kent

Analysis

Citizens Advice North East Kent is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Canterbury. It was registered in March 1990, 36 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 02483455). It says it provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Citizens Advice North East Kent reported income of £523k and spending of £528k, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £473k to £523k (+11%), an average of +2.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Citizens Advice North East Kent sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Now! Charity Group Ltd (£523k), The Furniture Project (£523k) and Victory Gospel Church (£522k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 63% and donations and legacies 35%. Charitable activities took 99% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Reserves of £313k would cover about 7 months of spending at that rate. It employed 16 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.