The Citizens Advice service helps people resolve their legal, money and other problems by providing free, independent and confidential advice, and by influencing policymakers.
Every Citizens Advice Bureau is a registered charity reliant on trained volunteers and funds to provide these vital services for local communities.
Fundraising |
Citizens Advice and every Citizens Advice Bureau are independent registered charities reliant on the support of a wide range of funders. During 2006/07 we spent £86,000 generating the income we needed to support our member bureaux.
Citizens Advice continues to work with a number of funders on specific projects including financial capability, money advice, and increased support to bureaux. However, we still need more unrestricted funding.
Fundraised income is showing strong year on year growth. 2006/07 was the most successful year ever for the fundraising team, showing a very competitive return on investment and a 13.5% increase on 2005/06. There has been a steady growth in statutory and trust fundraising. All strands of income improved considerably with corporate income at over £2 million for the first time.
maintain and develop funding partnerships which broaden the reach of CAB services to ‘hard to reach’ groups
develop partnerships and bids to the new Commission for Equality and Human Rights and other funders to support bureau advice and policy work on equality, discrimination and human rights issues
develop new funding partnerships as part of our financial inclusion work
market services such as training and CAB client evidence retrieval that could benefit the service and the wider community
implement a project, funded by the Big Lottery Fund, to improve access to advice working together with partners in the advice sector, such as AdviceUK, Youth Access and Age Concern.
