Preston and District Citizens Advice Bureau
Reference number: 617700
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Authorised by the FCA
This firm is on the FCA register and authorised to carry out regulated activities.
Website, phone number and address
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Phone number
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Address
Citizens Advice Bureau, Town Hall Annexe, Birley Street, Preston, Lancashire, PR1 2QE, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When citizensadvice.org.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 01772 906431 is
- Who else gives the postcode PR1 2QE
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Preston Citizens Advice Bureau Former name: A name it was registered under before.
The firm, by virtue of its constitution or any enactment, must be:(i) required (after payment of outgoings) to apply the whole of its income and any capital it expends for charitable or public purposes, and (ii) prohibited from directly or indirectly distributing amongst its members any part of its assets (otherwise than for charitable or public purposes); And the firm must not have any associate (other than a not-for profit debt advice body) which carries on debt adjusting or debt counselling or providing credit information services.)
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Lend or arrange credit No FSCS coverConsumer credit is not covered by the FSCS, so there is no compensation scheme if the firm fails.
- Complaints Ombudsman, freeYou can refer a complaint about this firm to the Financial Ombudsman Service for free, whichever activity it relates to.
Show FCA detail (3 permissions)
- Debt Adjusting
- Debt-counselling
- Providing Credit Information Services
FCA disciplinary action and complaints
No FCA disciplinary action.
The Financial Ombudsman Service only publishes complaint figures for firms with 30 or more new complaints in six months, so there are none here for this firm.
Companies House record
The company behind the firm: its status, age, registered office and directors.
- Company number
- 04349637 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private company limited by guarantee
- Incorporated
- 9 January 2002 (24 years old)
- Registered office
- Town Hall Annexe, Birley Street, Preston, Lancashire, PR1 2QE
- Nature of business
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- Other information service activities not elsewhere classified (SIC 63990)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
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| Paul Woodburn | Director | Jul 1962 | 12 Mar 2004 | 7 other companies |
| Philip Hubert Matthew Crowe (Councillor) | Director | Dec 1956 | 2 Jan 2020 | None |
| Judith Margaret Pearson | Director | Mar 1949 | 23 Nov 2022 | 1 other company |
| Michael John Bradley | Director | May 1946 | 25 Feb 2025 | 1 other company |
| Ellen Gregory | Director | Feb 1952 | 25 Feb 2025 | 2 other companies |
| Michael James Barker | Director | Aug 1970 | 20 Apr 2026 | None |
| Judith Margaret Pearson | Secretary | Not published | 9 Jan 2002 | – |
Other companies run by these 6 directors
A firm is run by people, and their other companies are their track record: what they built, what closed, and anything that failed. It is the check most people never think to make.
- other companies
- 11
- closed down
- 7
- still active
- 4
In the full report: all 11 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 6 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- All 24 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£376k
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Cash at bank
£374k
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Employees (average)
11
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Owed within a year
£24.2k
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About these figures
- Turnover
- Money taken from sales in the year, before any costs.
- Profit before tax
- What was left after the year’s costs, before corporation tax. A minus figure is a loss.
- Net assets, or total equity
- Everything the company owns minus everything it owes. A minus figure means it owes more than it owns.
- Total assets and total liabilities
- Everything the company owns, and everything it owes, on the last day of the year. The gap between them is its net assets.
- Cash at bank
- Money in the company’s accounts on the last day of the year.
- Owed within a year, owed after a year
- Debts and bills due in the next twelve months, and those due later.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 04349637. Every figure is as filed, apart from total assets and total liabilities, which are added up from filed figures. Nothing is estimated.
Key dates in its history
This firm’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2020
5 November 2020
- Changed its registered name from "Preston Citizens Advice Bureau"
FCA register
2014
1 April 2014
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- FCA imposed a requirement (Not for profit firm)
- Became authorised by the FCA
FCA register
2002
9 January 2002
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 50 events
- All 50 events in its history (5 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 44
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In Preston
In the Preston (PR) postcode area
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- 3 background checks on its contact details
- All 50 events in its history
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Sources and links
- Its entry on the FCA register register.fca.org.uk
- Its Companies House record gov.uk
- Complaints the Financial Ombudsman Service can help with financial-ombudsman.org.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk