Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 10
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

COMMUNITY ADVICE AND LAW SERVICE LTD

Community Advice and Law Service provides an independent advice service in social welfare law including debt, housing, welfare benefits and immigration (which is a charged for service), we also provide financial capability support through the Moneywise Living project, energy advice and generalist advice at Foodbanks.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£4,073£4,041£32£0£547£3821.1345
31/03/22£4,254£4,113£141£0£516£2870.8446
31/03/21£4,128£3,996£132£0£375£1860.6380
31/03/20£3,541£3,484£57£0£243£1000.3282
31/03/19£3,463£3,500£-37£66£183£670.2346
31/03/18*£3,718£3,611£108£252£220£950.3300
31/03/17£3,483£3,479£4£212£112£1110.4270
31/03/16£3,628£3,645£-17£194£113£1070.4260
31/03/15*£2,928£2,964£-37£4£130£1220.5200
31/03/14*£2,759£2,915£-156£5£168£1220.5170
31/03/13£2,540£2,600£-60£3£324£3171.5210
31/03/12£2,739£2,664£75£6£383£2821.3180
31/03/11£2,884£2,893£-9£6£309£2791.2170
31/03/10*£3,037£2,902£135£6£318£2230.9260
31/03/09*£2,581£2,596£-15£8£183£1700.8190
31/03/08£3,164£3,118£46£6£197£380.1240
31/03/07*£1,967£1,917£50£2£151£860.5290
31/03/06*£512£535£-24n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05*£506£442£64n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04*£470£439£31n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 2%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 25%
Liabilities/Income: 4%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 70%
Reserves/Spending: 1.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 3.3
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 23 years

www.cals.uk.net

enquiries@leicesterlawcentre.org.uk

01162421120

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Legal & financial advice
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Derbyshire, Leicester City, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Justice Together Initiative£450,000
Access to Justice Foundation£271,317
The Legal Education Foundation£109,661
DCMS£6,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Legal Education Foundation - JFF Host 2023
£109,661 25/05/2023
A grant to Community Advice and Law Service to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 10
Justice Together Initiative - East Midlands Immigration Network - a strategic partnership to sustain, expand and strengthen the sector
£450,000 23/11/2022
To develop a strategic partnership of 10 organisations, coordinated by CALS, that will bring together specialist legal advice agencies and grassroots organisations that seek to tackle race inequality ....more
Access to Justice Foundation - Help Accessing Legal Support (HALS)
£90,000 13/09/2022
Help Accessing Legal Support (HALS) is a programme of The Access to Justice Foundation with the Ministry of Justice. We are working with organisations to sustain and improve access to early social ....more
Access to Justice Foundation - Improving Outcomes Through Legal Support (IOTLS) grant
£41,317 23/05/2022
The funding programme aims to support organisations working to sustain and improve access to early social welfare and family legal support and advice, to enable users to resolve these problems as ....more
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£50,000 09/08/2021
A flexible grant as part of wave 2 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID82
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£90,000 16/07/2020
A flexible grant as part of wave 1 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID19
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£6,000 15/07/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Check-in 4 Advice
£211,519 30/10/2018
48
This project will continue to provide debt advice and support, such as challenging repossession orders, negotiating with bailiffs and creditors and applying for grants for food and energy costs, as ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Advice Leicester
£349,111 19/04/2013
24
The aim of this new project will see Community Advice and Law Service (CALS) become the lead of a ten organisation partnership to develop the integration of local advice services, increase capacity ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 31-77
  • BRETT BERNARD KOENIG Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Associate Head Of Law
  • HANNAH LOUISE FOUNTAIN Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Barrister
  • LORD WILLIAM STEPHEN GOULDEN BACH Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired
  • MR JIM MUNTON Appointed: 2008, Occupation: Company Secretary
  • MARY ELIZABETH COLLIER Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Financial Inclusion Manager
  • REBECCA JANE NIXON Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Management Consultant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 28/06/2001, number: 1087214
  • Registered at Companies House on 25/10/2000, number: 04096574
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Financial Conduct Authority
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR18: 9 days late, AR15: 2 days late, AR14: 24 days late, AR10: 31 days late, AR09: 31 days late, AR07: 66 days late, AR06: 14 days late, AR05: 15 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

Epic House
1 Lower Hill Street
LEICESTER
LE1 3SH

Objectives

TO RELIEVE POVERTY BY:3.1 ENABLING INDIVIDUAL DEBTORS TO MANAGE OR OVERCOME THEIR FINANCIAL PROBLEMS AND AS A CONSEQUENCE SUSTAIN THEIR ECONOMIC PROSPERITY, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF AN INDEPENDENT MONEY ADVICE AND SUPPORT SERVICE3.2 TO ENCOURAGE CLOSE LIAISON WITH AGENCIES FOR THE EXPANSION OF MONEY ADVICE3.3 PROMOTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF MONEY ADVICE WORK THROUGH THE PROVISION OF CONSULTANCY, SUPPORT, TRAINING, CASE WORK AND INFORMATION3.4 INFLUENCING AND ENCOURAGE SOCIAL POLICY MAKERS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS TO MORE ADEQUATELY PROTECT THOSE IN DEBT AND THEIR FAMILIES

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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