Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 16
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +16
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

JUSTICE COLLABORATIONS

We are a charity that operates throughout the United Kingdom to ensure that the justice system is fair, accessible and sustainably resourced. We build effective collaborations between funders, legal and community organisations that work together to create access to justice and social change.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
  • There are only 4 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end

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
30/06/23£8,053£4,168£3,885£0£6,556£0n/a00
30/06/22£1,687£4,478£-2,791£0£2,671£0n/a30
30/06/21£2,675£3,355£-680£0£5,462£0n/a30
Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 48%
Liabilities/Income: 75%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 0%
Reserves/Spending: 0 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 25 months
Quick Ratio: 1.6
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 5 years

secretary@thelef.org

02030055697

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Philanthropic intermediaries and voluntarism promotion
How it operates
  • Makes grants to organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • 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£5,622,000
The Legal Education Foundation£2,782,000
Trust for London£1,500,000
Comic Relief£1,500,000
Esmee Fairbairn£750,000
Joseph Rowntree Foundation£650,000
Indigo Trust£431,000
The Baring Foundation£300,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Legal Education Foundation - Justice Together initiative
£800,000 13/06/2024
Contribution to a funder collaboration that aims to transform access to justice in the UK immigration system. As well as offering funding, it supports grant partners to build the power and influence ....more
Indigo Trust - Three-year grant towards the Justice Together Initiative pooled fund
£331,000 19/10/2023
Three-year grant towards the Justice Together Initiative pooled fund
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Developing Peer Learning
£22,000 25/09/2023
The Justice Together Initiative is a funder collaboration that offers funding and support to grant partners to build the power and influence of people with lived and learned experience of the ....more
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to Justice Collaborations
£350,000 08/07/2023
The Justice Together Initiative
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Justice Collaborations
£200,000 06/07/2023
A restricted grant of £200,000 per year for 5 years towards the Justice Together Initiative (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 5 years). Justice Together Initiative aims to increase access ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Justice Collaborations
£750,000 06/02/2023
Towards delegated grant-making and costs of the Justice Together Initiative, a collaboration to improve access to legal advice to those using the UK immigration system
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Justice Together Initiative
£3,000,000 31/01/2023
The Justice Together Initiative is a funder collaboration that offers funding and support to grant partners to build the power and influence of people with lived and learned experience of the ....more
The Legal Education Foundation - Justice Together Initiative
£1,232,000 19/07/2022
Contribution to a funder collaboration that aims to transform access to justice in the UK immigration system. As well as offering funding, it supports grant partners to build the power and influence ....more
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to Justice Collaborations
£100,000 08/07/2022
Increase capacity for organisations providing advice and support as result of the conflict in Ukraine.
The Legal Education Foundation - Justice Together - response to Ukraine crisis
£250,000 10/06/2022
Strengthening immigration advice and advocacy capacity in organisations reaching Ukrainians and their families in the UK following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Indigo Trust - Justice Together funder collaboration
£50,000 26/05/2022
Contribution to the Justice Together Funder Collaboration
Indigo Trust - Justice Together funder collaboration
£50,000 26/05/2022
Contribution to the Justice Together Funder Collaboration
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Ukraine immigration advice
£100,000 17/03/2022
The Justice Together Initiative is a funder collaboration that offers funding and support to grant partners to build the power and influence of people with lived and learned experience of the ....more
Unbound Philanthropy - Grant to Justice Collaborations
£240,000 02/02/2022
To support the Justice Together Initiative to increase sound administration and rule of law for social welfare, especially immigration
The Legal Education Foundation - Justice Together Initiative
£500,000 07/05/2021
Contribution to a funder collaboration that aims to transform access to justice in the UK immigration system. As well as offering funding, it supports grant partners to build the power and influence ....more
Trust for London - Justice Collaborations
£1,500,000 01/08/2020
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The funding is for the Justice Together Inititive which will adopt a strategic approach to increasing immigration advice and legal provision to support those most in need, and to secure wider change ....more
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Justice Collaborations
£300,000 23/06/2020
Justice Together is a collaboration of independent funders aiming to transform access to justice in the UK immigration system.
Comic Relief - Justice Together
£1,500,000 26/05/2020
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Justice Together is a unique collaboration by independent funders. It will invest in free legal advice and national policy advocacy to support the lawful and fair functioning of immigration, ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - A pooled fund to increase access to immigration justice UK
£2,500,000 16/12/2019
36
Support for a pooled fund to increase the access to and the capacity, coordination and quality of immigration advice in the UK.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to Justice Collaborations
£300,000 30/11/2019
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Justice Together Initiative
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 39-69
  • JACQUELINE HELEN BROADHEAD Appointed: 2019, Occupation: University Researcher
  • JENNIFER SU-LAN ANG Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Solicitor
  • MATTHEW SMERDON Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Director
  • PATRICIA SLOAN Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 17/01/2020, number: 1187441
  • Registered at Companies House on 22/11/2019, number: 12328192
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
Filing Record
3 returns made; all on time
Main office

Justice Collaborations
15 Alfred Place
London
WC1E 7EB

Objectives

2.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:2.1.1 TO PROMOTE THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEGAL EDUCATION, THE STUDY OF LAW IN ALL ITS BRANCHES AND THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION OF LAW; 2.1.2 TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND OTHER CHARITABLE NEED AND TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION BY WORKING WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED OR WHO FACE DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, COUNSEL, ASSISTANCE AND REPRESENTATION TO THOSE WHO COULD NOT OTHERWISE OBTAIN SUCH SUPPORT; AND2.1.3 TO ADVANCE ANY OTHER PURPOSES RECOGNISED AS CHARITABLE IN ENGLAND & WALES FOR THE TIME BEING.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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