Rhondda Cynon Taff Citizens Advice Bureau

Rhondda Cynon Taff Citizens Advice Bureau (RCTCAB) aims to provide free, confidential, impartial and independent advice and information services to the people of Rhondda Cynon Taff and the surrounding areas (UK) to exercise a responsible influence on the development of social policies and services.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

Elsewhere

• Throughout England and Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Pontypridd and Rhondda

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £3,075,878 and spent £2,974,522.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Up 84%, from £1,673,895 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £3,075,878 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 97% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

Advicelink Cymru gave £789,447 in the year to 31 March 2025, 26% of that year's income.Read by AI from the charity's accounts.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 March 2025: £110,325 from 2 grants. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 March 2025, the charity named 22 funders who gave £2,288,016 between them. £232,000 of that came from public bodies.

These figures were read from the accounts the charity filed with the Charity Commission by Claude, an AI model, in OpenEconomy's accounts reader. AI can misread a table, so check the accounts on the register before relying on a figure.

Only funding the accounts name with an amount is included. Most charities also have income from donations, fees and trading that is not listed by funder, so this is part of its income.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 1 grant to this charity, worth £80,100, awarded in 2022.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

9 trustees run the charity.

• Ann KingAppointed 26 November 2025
• Christopher BindingAppointed 1 August 2018
• Dilys JouvenatAppointed 1 June 2015
• Ellis James ThomasAppointed 1 November 2024
• Lewis BrencherAppointed 5 July 2017
• Michael Haydn BryanAppointed 5 July 2017
• Nicola Redfern WillamsAppointed 5 June 2017
• Nkechi DawsonAppointed 1 November 2023
• Stephen BarlowAppointed 27 July 2015

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 4 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1074801

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

23 March 1999

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 23/02/1999AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 31/03/2014 as amended on 11 Dec 2024

Company number

03717793This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.carct.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Rhondda Cynon Taf

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader on 1 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: Rhondda Cynon Taf Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Rhondda Cynon Taf's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Pontypridd Cynon Merthyr
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Afan Ogwr Rhondda