Finance Score: 7
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 13
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Future income +5
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +13
Overall GiG Score: 26 ?

EALING LAW CENTRE

Ealing Law Centre aims to provide free specialist legal advice and representation across all areas of social welfare law for people of limited means to help them overcome the obstacles they face in getting access to the legal system. We will take our services into the community and work with other charities and community groups to train staff and volunteers in legal issues to maximise our reach.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

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£577£531£46£0£268£2686.1146
31/03/22£472£491£-19n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£527£419£108£0£241£2416.995
31/03/20£378£376£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£328£305£23n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£265£241£24n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£206£213£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£195£160£34n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£192£157£35n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£103£94£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 17%
Liabilities/Income: 10%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 6.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 3
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 12 years

ealinglawcentre.org.uk/

info@ealinglaw.org.uk

020 8579 4598

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Legal & financial advice
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Ealing, Hounslow,
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
Indigo Trust£665,000
Access to Justice Foundation£200,058
The Legal Education Foundation£103,719
Trust for London£66,013
AB Charitable Trust£62,000
London Legal Support Trust£30,000
City Bridge Trust£13,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Indigo Trust - Uplift of further unrestricted funding to support the Law Centre's work
£200,000 25/01/2024
Uplift of further unrestricted funding to cover financial years 23/24, 24/25 and 25/26
London Legal Support Trust - Centres of Excellence 2023
£10,000 28/12/2023
Long term core funding for specialist free legal advice organisations, along with in-kind help and support with ongoing development. Aiming to support a sustainable and robust specialist advice sector.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Ealing Law Centre
£22,000 21/08/2023
An unrestricted grant of £22,000 (This grant is renewable - year 2 of up to 3 years)This grant includes a 10% cost of living uplift. Ealing Law Centre provides specialist legal advice and representation in housing, immigration and welfare benefits.
London Legal Support Trust - Centres of Excellence 2022
£10,000 22/12/2022
Long term core funding for specialist free legal advice organisations, along with in-kind help and support with ongoing development. Aiming to support a sustainable and robust specialist advice sector.
Access to Justice Foundation - Community Justice Fund Wave Three
£14,672 22/11/2022
Wave three of the Community Justice Fund aims to support organisations delivering social welfare advice services to people most impacted by the cost-of-living crisis.
Indigo Trust - Unrestricted 3 year grant
£165,000 25/10/2022
Unrestricted 3 year grant towards mitigating cost of living crisis
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Ealing Law Centre
£20,000 06/10/2022
An unrestricted grant of £20,000 (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). Ealing Law Centre delivers specialist legal advice across housing, immigration and welfare benefits to people in Ealing.
Access to Justice Foundation - Help Accessing Legal Support (HALS)
£52,500 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 welfare and family legal advice, to enable users ....more
London Legal Support Trust - Centres of Excellence 2021
£10,000 14/12/2021
Long term core funding for specialist free legal advice organisations, along with in-kind help and support with ongoing development. Aiming to support a sustainable and robust specialist advice sector.
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£60,000 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 COVID55
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Ealing Law Centre
£20,000 01/07/2021
An unrestricted grant of £20,000. Ealing Law Centre delivers specialist legal advice across housing, immigration and welfare benefits.
Trust for London - Ealing Law Centre
£49,113 09/03/2021
This funding is for increasing access to its specialist advice services by developing its digital exclusion work responding to COVID19. Support will be provided by volunteers and staff at its location in Hanwell Community Library and online. The ....more
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£72,886 19/08/2020
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
Trust for London - Ealing Law Centre
£16,900 29/05/2020
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The funding is for the redeployment of a Housing Solicitor to meet increased demand for advice to tenants at risk of losing their homes, and additional hours for a benefits specialist to increase service to Ealing Foodbank for phone ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Ealing Law Centre
£13,500 09/04/2020
A one-off, unrestricted grant of £13,500, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisations current grant.
The Legal Education Foundation - JFF Host 2020
£103,719 13/03/2020
A grant to Ealing Law Centre to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 7.
Indigo Trust - Provision of specialist legal advice to the local community
£150,000 23/01/2020
Core unrestricted funding to support the work of the Law Centre.
Indigo Trust - Provision of specialist legal advice to the local community
£150,000 23/01/2020
Core unrestricted funding to support the work of the Law Centre.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Ealing Law Centre
£108,000 25/07/2019
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£108,000 over two further and final years £54,000, £54,000) towards the wages of two caseworkers, running costs and overheads of providing legal advice on housing and welfare rights.
Indigo Trust - Core funding/Learning Grant
£20,000 11/03/2019
Core funding.
Indigo Trust - Core funding/Learning Grant
£20,000 11/03/2019
Core funding.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Ealing Law Centre
£3,986 19/11/2018
Help us cover volunteer expenses, training and materials to support people faced with homelessness.
Trust for London - Ealing Law Centre
£150,000 06/06/2018
36
The funding is for a contribution to the costs of employing an Immigration Supervisor to head up the work of ELC's Immigration Unit, providing free legal advice and representation on immigration, asylum and citizenship matters to people in need in ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Ealing Law Centre
£134,700 07/09/2017
36
towards three years' running costs of a project that provides advice and representation for people from the London Borough of Ealing who are facing poverty, destitution and/or homelessness
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Ealing Law Centre
£155,400 24/05/2016
£155,400 (3 x £51,800) towards the wages of two 0.6FTE caseworkers, running costs and overheads of providing legal advice on housing and welfare rights.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 24-59
  • ABIGAIL SAYAGH Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Accountant
  • ADAM PARTINGTON Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Civil Servant
  • JANE BATALONA Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Lawyer
  • KAREENA TALWAR Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Legal Associate
  • NESAR KHAN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Legal Adviser
  • RICHARD BRUCE GOWTHORPE (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Solicitor
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/03/2013, number: 1151243
  • Registered at Companies House on 20/07/2012, number: 08151033
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
  • Investing charity funds 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
10 returns made; all on time
Main office

Ealing Law Centre
Hanwell Community Library
Cherington Road
London
W7 3HL

Objectives

A) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SUFFERING AND DISTRESS AMONG PERSONS RESIDENT OR WORKING WITHIN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF EALING AND NEIGHBOURING AREAS BY PROVISION OF LEGAL ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE; ANDB) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF PERSONS LIVING OR WORKING WITHIN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF EALING AND NEIGHBOURING AREAS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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