Finance Score: 7
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 14
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +14
Overall GiG Score: 27 ?

WORK RIGHTS CENTRE (WORC)

Our mission is to support migrants and disadvantaged Britons to access employment justice, and improve their social mobility. To achieve this we: (1) provide free and confidential legal advice; (2) provide training, tools, and public-facing resources that empower communities; and (3) publish robust research and policy recommendations, that challenge the root causes of injustice in the long-term.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no 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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • 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
31/03/23£397£366£31n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£254£242£11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£216£130£86n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£85£61£24n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£52£38£14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18*£15£10£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17*£5£2£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 9 years

http://www.workrightscentre.org/

contact@workrightscentre.org

03004000100

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebookX
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Legal & financial advice
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • 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
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£280,000
City Bridge Trust£268,360
The Legal Education Foundation£185,000
Henry Smith Charity£180,000
Trust for London£155,129
John Ellerman Foundation£150,000
Tudor Trust£72,000
Justice Together Initiative£70,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
John Ellerman Foundation - Core costs
£150,000 25/07/2024
36
Towards core costs to support the policy influencing and strategic litigation.
The Legal Education Foundation - Employment legal advice: building power for migrant workers and racially disadvantaged Britons with free legal advice
£185,000 23/05/2024
A grant to fund employment legal advice to support more migrants and racially disadvantaged workers to access employment justice.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Work Rights Centre
£22,000 14/03/2024
An unrestricted grant of £22,000 for 3 years (This grant is renewable - year 2 of up to 3 years). Work Rights Centre aims to combat migrants’ poverty, by empowering them to exit precarious employment, and improve their social mobility in the UK.
Alan & Babette Sainsbury Charitable Fund - Core costs
£33,100 14/11/2023
Towards its core costs
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Protecting migrants in post-Brexit Britain: a migrant worker strategy
£280,000 09/05/2023
The Work Rights Centre is a charity dedicated to helping migrant workers exit precarious work. Founded by people who have migrated to the UK with experience of the immigration system, they provide expert employment rights casework and evidence-based ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Work Rights Centre
£22,000 20/04/2023
An unrestricted grant of £22,000 for 3 years (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). Work Rights Centre aims to combat migrants’ poverty, by empowering them to exit precarious employment, and improve their social mobility in the UK.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Work Rights Centre
£180,000 25/08/2022
36
towards three years' salaries and on costs of an Employment Rights Solicitor and Immigration Solicitor at an 'Employment Rights and Employability Clinic' for marginalised migrant communities in the London Borough of Brent.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Work Rights Centre
£240,000 10/04/2022
60
£240,000 over five years (£46,000; £47,000; £48,000; £49,000; £50,000) to fund the full-time Service Provision Manager to coordinate advice work in London, with a contribution to organisational overhead costs proportionate to the share of the ....more
Trust for London - Work Rights Centre
£44,600 05/04/2022
The funding is for supporting the Ukrainian community through advice and casework on immigration, job searching, employment rights and welfare benefits. It will finance the full-time salary of our experienced Ukrainian and Russian speaking adviser, ....more
Justice Together Initiative - Increased access to advice and information for Eastern Europeans
£70,000 18/03/2022
Supporting Eastern Europeans in including refugees and the Ukrainian community in the UK to rebuild their lives. In practice, aiming to provide good information, specialist advice and casework and advocacy, and working together with local ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 08/10/2021
Employment Rights and Employability Clinic
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation - Grant to Work Rights Centre
£10,000 10/06/2021
37% as salary costs to extend frontline community services for an advice centre in the London Borough of Brent.
Greater London Authority - Grant to Work Rights Centre & Partners
£15,000 01/04/2021
Capacity building funding for community-led partnerships
London Catalyst - Work Rights Centre - 1
£5,000 09/02/2021
Derechos - an employment rights clinic for vulnerable Spanish speakers.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Work Rights Centre
£2,000 04/01/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
Greater London Authority - Grant to Work Rights Centre
£10,000 27/11/2020
European outreach work
Trust for London - Work Rights Centre
£88,000 14/10/2020
24
The funding is towards the salaries of staff to sustain and develop its current London employment rights clinic. This will ensure the continuous running of its clinic, as well as robust governance and financial management of the organisation.
Barrow Cadbury Trust - COVID-19 - Work Rights Centre
£21,880 30/09/2020
6
To enable Work Rights Centre to respond to its increased employment support caseload from vulnerable EU migrants
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Work Rights Centre
£28,360 28/09/2020
towards expanding the hours of the Employment Rights Clinic as outlined in your application
Tudor Trust - Grant to Work Rights Centre
£70,000 01/09/2020
24
over two years as continuation funding on an unrestricted basis, for a charity combatting in-work poverty by supporting people in insecure employment in London and Manchester
Trust for London - Work Rights Centre
£22,529 30/04/2020
3
The funding is for extending advice clinic hours and providingcommunity language advice, and IT solutions i.e. infographics and mobile templates to enable clients without English/IT skills to challenge employers acting unlawfully and to access ....more
Greater London Authority - Grant to 'Work Rights Centre'
£4,970 10/12/2019
European Outreach Grant
Greater London Authority - Grant to 'Work Rights Centre'
£4,960 19/03/2019
European Outreach Grant
Tudor Trust - Grant to Work Rights Centre
£50,000 10/10/2018
24
over two years towards the running costs of a charity supporting Eastern European migrants in precarious employment situations as it expands from Brent into East London
Trust for London - Work Rights Centre
£30,000 14/06/2018
24
The funding for the salaries of Service Provision Manager and Service Provision Officer, and volunteer expenses, which will ensure the continuous running of our weekly employment rights clinic in the Wembley Community Library. The funding will ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

  • JOHN SPRACK Appointed: 2024
  • LAURA CHILINTAN Appointed: 2018
  • LAURA GABRIELA TUTU Appointed: 2020
  • MIRANDA LUCY STJOHN BUTLER Appointed: 2023
  • MONA BOU ZEINEDDINE Appointed: 2018
  • ROBERT PATRICK MCNEIL (Chair) Appointed: 2023
  • SADAT SAYEED Appointed: 2022
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 03/02/2016, number: 1165419
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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
  • 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
7 returns made; AR18: 1 days late, AR17: 2 days late,
Main office

Work Rights Centre
379-381 High Rd
LONDON
NW10 2JR

Objectives

The charity's purpose is to prevent and relieve poverty for the public benefit, by breaking the vicious cycle of precarious work (being employment which is low wage and low protection and offers no job security), insecure housing, and social isolation which affects vulnerable people, particularly migrant and ethnic minority workers, in insecure jobs in the UK. This is by:(a) assisting people who are in, or at risk of, precarious work with information, advice and casework on how to access fair and lawful employment, immigration status security, financial assistance, and other necessary conditions of social mobility; (b) conducting research and evidence-based campaigns for fairer employment, better social integration, and social mobility; (c) raising awareness of the dangers of precarious work and social immobility, by engaging relevant stakeholders in the business, public, and third sectors.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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