Finance Score: 6
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 14
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +14
Overall GiG Score: 26 ?

SUFFOLK LAW CENTRE

To provide legal services to help the diverse communities of Suffolk to gain equal access to justice, to challenge disadvantage and inequality, and to understand their legal rights, obligations and protections.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending since inception
  • 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 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£477£524£-47n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£455£504£-49n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£576£451£125£0£364£1724.61570
31/03/20£517£349£168£0£240£672.3570
31/03/19£123£130£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Balance Sheet History
Established: 7 years

https://suffolklawcentre.org.uk/

office@suffolklawcentre.org.uk

01473408111

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Legal & financial advice
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk,
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
Access to Justice Foundation£765,793
The Legal Education Foundation£475,992
AB Charitable Trust£82,000
DCMS£50,250
The Bell Foundation£48,426
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
Essex Community Foundation£10,000
Quartet Community Foundation£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Access to Justice Foundation - Improving Lives Through Advice Grant
£420,500 01/03/2024
The Improving Lives Through Advice programme is made possible by a £30 million grant from The National Lottery Community Fund, thanks to National Lottery players. Working in partnership with the ....more
The Legal Education Foundation - A grant to Suffolk Law Centre
£196,492 30/11/2023
A grant to Suffolk Law Centre under the LEF's Stronger Sector grant programme
The Bell Foundation - Suffolk Access to Justice Project Y1
£48,426 18/10/2023
Suffolk Law Centre and Suffolk Council for Racial Equality are jointly working on a project that aims to address poorer legal outcomes, criminal and civil, in the interaction with the criminal ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Suffolk Law Centre
£22,000 04/07/2023
An unrestricted grant of £22,000 for 3 years (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). Suffolk Law Centre provides specialist legal advice on discrimination, housing, family and ....more
Access to Justice Foundation - Community Justice Fund Wave Three
£12,000 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.
National Lottery Community Fund - Tackling Discrimination in the East: Thrive In Work subproject
£10,000 21/10/2022
The funding will be used to continue to support people with disabilities in Suffolk who suffer unlawful discrimination in the workplace. This will provide early interventions legal advice enabling ....more
Access to Justice Foundation - Help Accessing Legal Support (HALS)
£75,750 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
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Suffolk Law Centre
£5,000 01/07/2022
As directed by the donor towards the work of Suffolk Law Centre which provides a free legal service to local residents.
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Suffolk Law Centre
£10,000 07/06/2022
to support the provision of housing advice and associated legal assistance on housing matters and social welfare issues for potentially vulnerable residents in North-East Essex
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Suffolk Law Centre
£20,000 18/03/2022
An unrestricted grant of £20,000 (This grant is renewable - year 3 of 3 years). Suffolk Law Centre provides free legal advice and casework in immigration, family and discrimination law.
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£35,000 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 COVID43
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Suffolk Law Centre
£20,000 26/03/2021
An unrestricted grant of £20,000 (This grant is renewable - year 2 of up to 3 years). Suffolk Law Centre provides free legal advice and casework in immigration, family and discrimination law.
The Legal Education Foundation - JFF Host 2021
£84,500 24/03/2021
A grant to Suffolk Law Centre to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 8.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Suffolk Law Centre
£2,000 05/01/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£5,400 19/10/2020
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
Access to Justice Foundation - Legal Support for Litigants in Person Grant
£217,143 24/09/2020
LSLIP is a two-year project funded by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). It aims to enhance services that support the earliest possible interventions for litigants in person reducing the risk of their ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£50,250 26/08/2020
"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
The Legal Education Foundation - Grow Your Own: How to build capacity in the social justice legal sector
£195,000 17/06/2020
Testing and developing the Grow Your Own model for building capacity and addressing systemic gaps relating to the supervision of legal casework within the social justice legal sector.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Suffolk Law Centre
£1,500 08/06/2020
COVID19 : Purchase IT equipment for a charity that provides legal advice and advocacy to disadvantaged communities in Suffolk
Suffolk Community Foundation - Core running costs
£5,000 15/05/2020
3
To support the core costs of running the Suffolk Law Centre. Covid 19.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Suffolk Law Centre
£20,000 23/04/2020
An unrestricted grant of £20,000 (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years, subject to annual trustee approval). Suffolk Law Centre delivers legal advice and casework in immigration, ....more
Suffolk Community Foundation - Grant to Suffolk Law Centre
£5,000 05/09/2019
12
Towards core running costs for Suffolk Law Centre.
National Lottery Community Fund - Tackling Discrimination in the East
£364,759 30/05/2019
36
The organisation will use funding to continue offering legal services to people experiencing unlawful discrimination who are unable to fund legal action themselves.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Suffolk Law Centre
£100,000 28/05/2019
36
over three years as continuation funding towards the triage worker's salary at a law centre providing legal advice to people across Suffolk
National Lottery Community Fund - Tackling Discrimination in the East ("TDE")
£118,528 07/11/2018
12
This is the continuation and expansion of a project which aims to provide a legal advice centre, workshops and training in order to tackle discrimination. The project will deliver a programme of ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • CAROLE ANN PARRY-JONES LLB HONS Appointed: 2023
  • DR JAMES SANDBACH Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Legal Adviser
  • JEMMA ANNE JONES Appointed: 2023
  • MONICA RUTH KURNATOWSKA Appointed: 2023
  • PROFESSOR GARETH HOWELL THOMAS (Chair) Appointed: 2023
  • SAMANTHA JANE KATHERYN GALLAGHER Appointed: 2023
  • STEVAN HARRY STRATTON Appointed: 2023
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 12/12/2017, number: 1176229
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
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
  • 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
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

SUFFOLK LAW CENTRE
46A ST. MATTHEWS STREET
IPSWICH
IP1 3EP

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SUFFERING AND DISTRESS AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AMONG PEOPLE LIVING OR WORKING IN SUFFOLK AND EAST ANGLIA GENERALLY AND SUCH OTHER PLACES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DETERMINE (INCLUDING WITHIN HER MAJESTY’S PRISONS), BY THE PROVISION OF LEGAL ADVICE, ASSISTANCE, REPRESENTATION AND INFORMATION WHICH THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE AFFORD THROUGH LACK OF MEANS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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