CITIZENS ADVICE IN NORTH & WEST KENT

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  3 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

1. CITIZENS ADVICE IN NORTH & WEST KENT 2015-06-20 → present
2. GRAVESHAM CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU 2000-03-30 → 2015-06-20

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

WP Audit Services LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“After making further appropriate enquiries, including detailed cashflow forecast and undertaking staff restructure to reduce operating costs, the Trustees have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence in the foreseeable future. For this reason, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”

Significant events

• “In 2024-25, we saw increased demand for our services and ever greater complexity in the needs of individual clients.”
• “In 2024/25 we helped over 19,000 clients, a slight decrease of 5% on 2023/24, but the number of issues we dealt with is up 7% (42,000) and we achieved £4.7million in financial outcomes up 60% compared to 2023/24.”
• “One of our main aims for 2025/26 is to join the Law Centres Network and expand the range of free legal advice we can offer to our clients.”
• “Securing Law Centre accreditation and the capability to deliver Legal Aid will not only strengthen our own offer, but also enable us to support other local charities.”
• “In March 2025 we received a Kent & Medway Healthwatch Recognition Award for Excellence : "The service delivers positive changes that far surpass the immediate benefits of financial worries. [...] The project has prevented people in Kent from taking their own lives."”
• “Published our 'Bridging the Gap' report into charitable support in CANWK after detailed research into the issue throughout 2024.”
• “Conducted further research into Furniture Poverty as an issue that emerged from this work and produced material for campaign work.”
• “Since September 2024, we've been able to offer Legal Aid to eligible clients — allowing us to support people seamlessly from the moment they receive a possession notice right through to representation in court.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

6

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

3

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  —

  Not reported

• Cash

  -30%

  £398,151 → £278,861

• Net assets

  -30.1%

  £800,317 → £559,048

• Employees

  +6.2%

  65 → 69

• Wages

  +16.9%

  £1,322,380 → £1,545,563

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers