Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: -8
Support Score: 6
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Latest return overdue -5
  • Multiple returns filed late: -2
  • Overall weighted support: +6
Overall GiG Score: -7 ?

ISLE OF WIGHT LAW CENTRE

Social Welfare Law
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there only 3 trustees?
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age
  • and returns have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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
31/03/22*£145£253£-108n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£261£257£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20*£257£261£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£257£261£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£284£350£-66n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£284£350£-66n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£390£384£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£392£383£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£447£402£45n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£494£446£48n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£529£456£73£456£132£1173.1170
31/03/11£455£443£12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10*£498£436£62n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£372£385£-13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£366£366£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07£341£309£32n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£112£87£25n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05*£105£165£-60n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 21 years

www.iowlawcentre.org

iowlc@iowlc.org.uk

01983524715

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Provides financial or material assistance
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Isle Of Wight,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • 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
DCMS£44,000
National Lottery Community Fund£41,700
AB Charitable Trust£30,000
Tudor Trust£2,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Project Pan
£41,700 22/11/2021
The funding will help to run run social welfare law work in the Pan Estate on the Isle of Wight. IOWLC is an independent registered charity offering specialist free social welfare advice and representation to residents and are the only organisation ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Isle of Wight Law Centre Ltd
£15,000 07/10/2021
An unrestricted grant of £15,000. The Isle of Wight Law Centre delivers specialist advice in social welfare law including housing, debt, welfare benefits, employment, and community care.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Isle of Wight Law Centre Ltd
£2,000 07/01/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£44,000 18/06/2020
"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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Isle of Wight Law Centre Ltd
£15,000 23/04/2020
An unrestricted grant of £15,000. Isle of Wight Law Centre delivers social welfare legal advice including housing, debt, welfare benefits, employment and community care.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Isle of Wight Law Centre Ltd
£75,000 24/01/2019
36
over three years towards the salary of the Advocate Court desk worker, to support people facing repossession or eviction
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Isle of Wight Law Centre
£44,745 24/11/2016
36
The Isle of Wight Law Centre is seeking to provide move on support to homeless people whom it has assisted into accommodation to address the causes of their homelessness and and to help them to maintain their accommodation and move forward positively
Tudor Trust - Grant to Isle of Wight Law Centre Ltd
£70,000 18/11/2014
24
over two years as continuation funding for partnership work with Homestart Isle of Wight, supporting families through the provision of debt, welfare and housing advice alongside parenting support
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Isle of Wight Law Centre
£31,000 28/09/2012
the salary costs of the Welfare Benefit and Debt Advisor and office, training, travel and recruitment costs
National Lottery Community Fund - 'Stepping Stone' Young Adults Volunteer Project
£110,981 18/09/2012
36
This existing project will offer volunteer placements within the Isle of Wight Law Centre to NEET young people aged 18-25, relating to the provision of legal advice to disadvantaged people in the community. The volunteers will attend staff meetings, ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Specialist Housing Advisor at HMP Camphill Prison
£161,793 12/01/2011
60
This project based at HMP Camphill on the Isle of Wight, provides specialist housing advice to offenders with the aim of resolving housing problems, preventing homelessness and improving their overall health and welfare, while reducing re-offending. ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 58-65
  • FIONA GWINNETT Appointed: 2010, Occupation: Chief Executive
  • JONATHAN FRANCIS BACON, Occupation: Principal Lecturer
  • MICHAEL CAREY Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Housing Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 25/03/2004, number: 1102853
  • Registered at Companies House on 15/09/2003, number: 04898915
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Financial Conduct Authority
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
18 returns made; AR22: 106 days late, AR20: 37 days late, AR10: 18 days late, AR05: 121 days late,
Main office

ISLE OF WIGHT LAW CENTRE
EXCHANGE HOUSE
ST. CROSS LANE
NEWPORT
ISLE OF WIGHT
PO30 5BZ

Objectives

4.1 TO ESTABLISH AN INDEPENDENT LAW CENTRE IN THE AREA OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT (AS CONSTITUTED FROM TIME TO TIME) (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE DESIGNATED AREA) TO RELIEVE CHARITABLE NEED, IN PARTICULAR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, BY THE PROVISION OF A LEGAL SERVICE TO THOSE IN NEED OF IT; AND4.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AMONGST PERSONS LIVING, WORKING OR CONNECTED WITH THE DESIGNATED AREA BY THE IMPROVEMENT AND DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE OF THE LAW AND THE PRACTICE OF THE LAW AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE, HAVING REGARD ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE AREAS OF THE LAW WHICH ARE OF PARTICULAR CONCERN TO POOR PEOPLE OR ARE DIRECTED TO THE RELIEF OF POVERTY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

ISLE OF WIGHT.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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