Overall Score: 19 based on 17 data points

Finance: -1

Governance: 6

Support: 14

Poor Liquidity: -1,

Dynamic board: +3, Gender balanced board: +3,

Supporters: +14

ACCESS YOUR RIGHT TO CARE

Delivering free legal support in England so we all get the social care we have a right to. Providing access to a network of solicitors and barristers. Filling the gap left by legal aid to ensure access to justice.Working with communities and public bodies to uphold the rule of law. Shaping a future where social care is adequately funded.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
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:

Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end

Established: 4 years

accesscharity.org.uk

Kari.gerstheimer@accesscharity.org.uk

07899090360

Charity Commission for England and Wales

This Charity did not raise funds from the public in its latest financial period

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23	£1,669	£1,523	£146	£185	£1,304	£314	2.5	32	150
31/03/22	£1,680	£1,161	£518	£136	£1,158	£477	4.9	26	150
31/03/21	£1,377	£738	£639	£88	£639	£231	3.8	14	150

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 11.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 12.1%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 12%
Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
Liabilities/Assets: 17%
Liabilities/Income: 16%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 55%
Reserves/Spending: 2.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 3.8

Asset Split ?

What it does

Disability
Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity

Who works here?

32 employees
150 volunteers

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England,

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation	£320,000
The Legal Education Foundation	£238,600
The Baring Foundation	£130,000
Access to Justice Foundation	£114,672
Pears Foundation	£100,000
The Dulverton Trust	£30,000
Garfield Weston Foundation	£30,000
AB Charitable Trust	£20,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
£20,000	06/02/2023	Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Access to Justice Foundation
£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.
The Legal Education Foundation
£221,000	15/06/2022	Establishing a social care legal sector community of practice to support policy and influencing work in relation to sustaining community care legal aid.
Garfield Weston Foundation
£30,000	18/02/2022	Place-Based Hubs
AB Charitable Trust
£20,000	20/01/2022	An unrestricted grant of £20,000. Access Social Care provides legal advice and information to people with social care needs and works with communities to increase their knowledge of social care ....more An unrestricted grant of £20,000. Access Social Care provides legal advice and information to people with social care needs and works with communities to increase their knowledge of social care rights and the use of law to ensure them.
The Dulverton Trust
£30,000	28/10/2021	Core costs
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
£300,000	07/07/2021 36	Towards unrestricted core costs to provide free legal advice for people with social care needs, helping them achieve a better quality of life.
The Legal Education Foundation
£17,600	01/07/2021	Leading a scoping exercise to understand the challenges to career pathways in community care law and recommend next steps.
Comic Relief
£70,000	28/04/2021	Access Social Care provides free legal support to disabled people with social care needs. We support helplines and community organisations to give more expert advice. Everyday millions of older ....more Access Social Care provides free legal support to disabled people with social care needs. We support helplines and community organisations to give more expert advice. Everyday millions of older and disabled people go without the care they have a right to. Demand for advice is growing. But specialist advice funded through legal aid is reducing. Helplines and community organisations are overwhelmed and under-resourced, advisors can lack specialist expertise. Charity websites are hard to navigate. There is no obvious place for people to turn. We realised that disabled people, their families and supporters need clear, accurate, timely and accessible advice, available 24/7. Advice needs to be in small chunks and in a reassuring tone. Users with urgent and complex queries must be filtered through to an expert quickly. Our digital solution is a legal information chatbot. Developed on an open-source platform, white-labelled, co-designed and developed with key stakeholders, it can be cheaply hosted on charity websites. It will be the go-to online portal for social care advice. Digital inclusion is central to our solution. Disabled, older and people from BAME communities are partners in design, development, and testing, helping us learn and improve. Research tells us we need us to develop the next stage of the user journey. Through this fund we will auto-fill template letters for printing and sending to public bodies; generate automated emails to remind people to get back in touch if their problem persists; and develop and improve the handoff to our legal team and local agencies.
The EQ Foundation
£300	15/02/2021	Via The Funding Network
Pears Foundation
£100,000	12/02/2021	Core Funding
The Funding Network
£12,067	26/01/2021	We are responding to a pandemic related surge in demand. We are setting up regional hubs to reach into communities experiencing multiple barriers to accessing social care and accessing justice.
Access to Justice Foundation
£100,000	13/10/2020	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
The Baring Foundation
£30,000	23/06/2020	To grow a regional hub model and develop our chatbot, meeting community needs and ensuring all people access the care they have a right to.
The Baring Foundation
£100,000	11/03/2019	Strategic legal manager to lead development of use of data and strategic legal tactics to hold public bodies to account and bring about systems change

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How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

CHRISTOPHER GEORGE HALE
Appointed: 2019
Other trusteeship: STRIVE,

JANINE LESLEY TREGELLES
Appointed: 2019

JOYCE GRACE SARPONG
Appointed: 2022
Other trusteeships: KING'S COLLEGE SCHOOL, AFRICAN REVIVAL,

KEVIN FRANCIS MCGUIRK
Appointed: 2021

LINDA ROSE REDFORD
Appointed: 2021

RHODA IRANLOYE
Appointed: 2022
Other trusteeships: VISION SHAPERS INTERNATIONAL, DIMENSIONS CYMRU LIMITED,

ROBBIE MATTHEW CONNOR TURNER
Appointed: 2022

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 03/12/2019, number: 1186714
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
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Main office

COVENTRY LAW CENTRE LTD
OAKWOOD HOUSE
CHEYLESMORE
COVENTRY
CV1 2HL

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, THROUGHOUT THE UNITED KINGDOM, BY:A) PROVIDING LEGAL AND OTHER ADVISORY REPRESENTATION AND INFORMATION SERVICES TO PEOPLE WHO COULD NOT OTHERWISE OBTAIN THEM THROUGH LACK OF MEANS OR BECAUSE OF ANOTHER VULNERABILITY (INCLUDING COMMUNICATION NEEDS).B) PROVIDING LEGAL EDUCATION TO THOSE WORKING IN THE SOCIAL CARE SECTOR AND THOSE IN RECEIPT OF SOCIAL CARE SO THEY ARE BETTER EQUIPPED TO IDENTIFY AND ADDRESS LEGAL ISSUES SHOULD THEY ARISE.C) RAISING AWARENESS ON TRENDS OF ONGOING UNLAWFUL BEHAVIOUR WHICH IS IDENTIFIED THROUGH ACCESS YOUR RIGHT TO CARE'S LEGAL WORK.

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