Citizens Advice are a charity

As a follow up to the article by Paul Shamplina ‘Section 21 – The Bigger Picture not seen by Citizens Advice’ and the subsequent comments concerning this article raising the point that Citizens Advice are a charity.

One of our members Barry has supplied the confirmation and documentation below:

Charity Registered charity number 279057

Click Here to download the Citizens Advice annual report

The Citizens Advice service is made up of Citizens Advice – the national charity – and a network of around 300 local Citizens Advice members. Our members are all independent charities. Our network delivers services from:

• over 600 local Citizens Advice outlets
• over 1,800 community centres, GPs’ surgeries and prisons
• over 240 courts across England and Wales We do this with:
• 800 national staff
• 6,500 local staff
• over 23,000 trained volunteers