Finance Score: 8
Governance Score: 8
Support Score: 11
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Future income +5
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 27 ?

TOWER HAMLETS LAW CENTRE

Tower Hamlets Law Centre exists to develop independent Law Centre services for the people of Tower Hamlets and East London. To provide access to justice and to facilitate the awareness of legal rights, particularly targeting the most disadvantaged members of the community
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Positives:

  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are 16 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12

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£625£623£2£0£276£2765.3155
31/03/22£637£567£70£0£274£2745.8165
31/03/21£555£549£6£0£204£2044.51750
31/03/20£525£486£39£0£198£1914.71460
31/03/19£599£453£146£0£159£1393.71410
31/03/18£442£435£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£414£462£-48n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£421£466£-45n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£517£572£-55£8£99£601.3100
31/03/14£584£667£-83£9£154£841.5100
31/03/13*£926£1,094£-168£11£237£1942.1230
31/03/12£1,506£1,492£15£12£405£3252.6330
31/03/11*£1,558£1,520£38£9£390£3102.4360
31/03/10*£1,427£1,357£70£9£352£2141.9290
31/03/09£1,319£1,336£-17£10£282£1871.7280
31/03/08£1,019£1,007£12£30£299£2152.6220
31/03/07£906£934£-27£27£288£2323180
31/03/06£819£815£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£977£718£258n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£531£609£-78n/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: 19%
Liabilities/Income: 10%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 5.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 3.5
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 41 years

www.thlc.co.uk

info@thlc.co.uk

02075384909

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Legal & financial advice
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • 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
The Legal Education Foundation£311,890
Trust for London£196,912
City Bridge Trust£111,741
AB Charitable Trust£45,000
Home Office£44,136
Access to Justice Foundation£39,636
London Legal Support Trust£30,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Legal Education Foundation - JFF Host 2024
£110,564 23/05/2024
A grant to Tower Hamlets Law Centre to fund one fellow trainee placement as part of cohort 11.
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 ....more
The Legal Education Foundation - JFF Host 2023
£110,564 25/05/2023
A grant to Tower Hamlets Law Centre to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 10
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 ....more
Trust for London - Tower Hamlets Law Centre
£7,050 29/09/2022
This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-02.02.2021-8978
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Tower Hamlets Law Centre
£15,000 17/06/2022
An unrestricted grant of £15,000 (This grant is renewable - year 3 of 3 years). Tower Hamlets Law Centre provides legal advice and representation services in housing, immigration, welfare benefits ....more
Access to Justice Foundation - Improving Outcomes Through Legal Support (IOTLS) grant
£33,636 23/05/2022
The funding programme aims to support organisations working to sustain and improve access to early social welfare and family legal support and advice, to enable users to resolve these problems as ....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 ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Tower Hamlets Law Centre
£15,000 14/06/2021
An unrestricted grant of £15,000 (This grant is renewable - year 2 of up to 3 years). Tower Hamlets Law Centre provides specialist legal advice and representation services in housing, immigration, ....more
Trust for London - Tower Hamlets Law Centre
£140,000 11/06/2021
36
The funding is for a specialist legal advice and representation service on immigration law for people fleeing domestic violence who do not qualify for legal aid. These people, nearly always women, ....more
Home Office - EU Settlement Grant Scheme Funding
£29,424 01/04/2021
This grants scheme will enable organisations to provide practical support to vulnerable EU citizens to help them make their EU Settlement Scheme application by 30 June 2021 and continuing support ....more
The Legal Education Foundation - JFF Host 2021
£90,762 24/03/2021
A grant to Tower Hamlets Law Centre to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 8.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Tower Hamlets Law Centre
£100,000 16/03/2021
£100,000 over 2 further and final years (2 x £50,000) towards the core costs of Tower Hamlets Law Centre, contributing to staffing, overheads and running costs.
Trust for London - Tower Hamlets Law Centre
£49,862 15/03/2021
The funding is towards salaries of core advisors to continue and increase access to advice services while helping overcome a shortfall in income caused by Covid-19 and financial uncertainty. COVID19 ....more
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£6,000 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
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Tower Hamlets Law Centre
£15,000 02/07/2020
An unrestricted grant of £15,000 (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). Tower Hamlets Law Centre (THLC) provides specialist legal advice and representation services in housing, ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Tower Hamlets Law Centre
£11,741 05/06/2020
£11,741 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
Home Office - EU Settlement Grant Scheme Funding 21/22
£14,712 01/04/2020
This grants scheme will enable organisations to provide practical support to vulnerable EU citizens to help them make their EU Settlement Scheme application by 30 June 2021 and continuing support ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Tower Hamlets Law Centre
£20,000 15/10/2018
£20,000 towards a trainee solicitor. Tower Hamlets Law Centres provide free legal advice and representation, including on welfare benefits, housing, immigration & employment.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Tower Hamlets Law Centre
£150,000 02/05/2018
36
£150,000 over three years (£75,000, £50,000, £25,000) towards core costs including staffing & overheads; and for the establishment of a supporters' network, individual giving scheme and the ....more
Trust for London - Tower Hamlets Law Centre
£134,000 21/02/2018
36
The funding is towards a specialist legal advice and representation service on immigration law for people fleeing domestic violence who do not qualify for legal aid. These people, nearly always ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Tower Hamlets Law Centre
£20,000 27/04/2017
£20,000 towards core costs. Tower Hamlets Law Centres provide free legal advice and representation, including on welfare benefits, housing, immigration & employment.
AB Charitable Trust - Specialist legal advice and representation services
£10,000 27/01/2015
£10,000 towards core costs
Tudor Trust - Grant to Tower Hamlets Law Centre
£58,000 18/08/2013
24
over two years towards the salary and associated costs of a new volunteer co-ordinator for a project matching local young people with volunteer trainee solicitors from city law firms to deliver ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (16)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 13/16 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 26-86
  • AL-KARIM MAKHANI Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Consultant
  • CATE TUITT Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Consultant
  • DEREK MAURICE COX OBE Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Volunteer Youth & Community Worker
  • DAS DEBASHIS Appointed: 2023
  • JAMES BLYTHE Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Local Government Officer
  • MANUHAR ALI Appointed: 2008, Occupation: Advice Worker
  • MARK KALDERON Appointed: 2008, Occupation: Lawyer
  • MARIA-GRAZIA DONVITO Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Company Director
  • PHILIP JUSTIN BARTLETT Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Lawyer
  • PHILIPPA SALEWICZ Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Employee Relations Professional
  • ROSALIND SHAW Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Independent Social Worker
  • SABRINA JAMIL Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Parliamentary Researcher
  • STEPHANIE LEUNG Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Trainee Solicitor
  • STEVEN PALLETT Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Financial Services Professional
  • YVONNE KRAMO Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Barrister
  • ZENO CAPUCCI Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Lawyer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 06/07/1983, number: 287282
  • Registered at Companies House on 04/05/1983, number: 01720518
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • 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
20 returns made; AR13: 2 days late, AR11: 2 days late, AR10: 2 days late,
Main office

Unit 1
St. Anne Street
off 789 Commercial Road
LONDON

Objectives

1. THE ACQUISITION OF THE UNDERTAKING AND ASSETS OF THE UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATION KNOWN AS THE TOWER HAMLETS LAW CENTRE; 2. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AMONGST PERSONS RESIDENT OR WORKING IN GREATER LONDON AND IN PARTICULAR THE LONDON BOROUGH OF TOWER HAMLETS (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE BENEFIT AREA) BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH LEGAL SERVICES WHICH THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE OBTAIN OR WHICH IT WOULD NOT BE REASONABLY PRACTICABLE OR APPROPRIATE TO OBTAIN ELSEWHERE; 3. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AMONGST PERSONS RESIDENT OR WORKING IN THE BENEFIT AREA; 4. THE ADVANCEMENT OF SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS ARE BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY FOR PERSONS RESIDENT OR WORKING IN THE BENEFIT AREA.

Defined Area of Benefit:

GREATER LONDON IN PARTICULAR LONDON BOROUGH OF TOWER HAMLETS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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