Finance Score: 7
Governance Score: 8
Support Score: 13
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Future income +5
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +13
Overall GiG Score: 28 ?

DERBYSHIRE LAW CENTRE LTD

To provide a range of legal advice and representation services to the most disadvantaged communities in Derbyshire.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • 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 13 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*£1,150£1,057£93£0£442£3373.8311
31/03/22£1,152£1,029£123£0£349£3143.7301
31/03/21£1,125£1,007£118£2£274£2523303
31/03/20£883£883£-1£7£156£1492256
31/03/19£675£680£-5£1£156£1512.7218
31/03/18*£593£571£22£4£161£1573.3160
31/03/17£502£485£18£2£140£1303.2140
31/03/16*£477£482£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£493£461£32n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£486£470£16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£390£501£-110n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£693£673£20£9£196£1592.8170
31/03/11*£742£680£62£7£176£1512.7180
31/03/10£702£680£22£7£114£861.5170
31/03/09£634£652£-17£7£92£400.7200
31/03/08£556£581£-25£7£110£641.3170
31/03/07£391£403£-12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£350£331£19n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£332£298£33n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£362£335£27n/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: 41%
Liabilities/Income: 27%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 76%
Reserves/Spending: 3.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 1.8
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 35 years

derbyshirelawcentre.org.uk

dlc@derbyshirelawcentre.org.uk

01246550674

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • 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
  • Derbyshire,
Who it helps
  • 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
Access to Justice Foundation£664,982
National Lottery Community Fund£311,366
The Legal Education Foundation£175,854
AB Charitable Trust£84,000
Lloyds Bank Foundation£52,250
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Legal Education Foundation - JFF Host 2024
£98,447 23/05/2024
A grant to Derbyshire Law Centre to fund one fellow trainee placement as part of cohort 11.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Derbyshire Law Centre
£22,000 14/03/2024
An unrestricted grant of £22,000 (Year 3 of 3 years). Derbyshire Law Centre provides legal advice, casework, and representation to people across the county in the areas of housing, homelessness, ....more
Access to Justice Foundation - Improving Lives Through Advice Grant
£500,000 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
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Derbyshire Law Centre
£22,000 20/04/2023
An unrestricted grant of £22,000 (This grant is renewable - year 2 of up to 3 years)This grant includes a 10% cost of living uplift. Derbyshire Law Centre provides legal advice, casework, and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Step in to Work
£311,366 24/03/2023
This project will use funding to provide supported and compassionate volunteering opportunities for young people those with disabilities and long-term health issues to develop skills knowledge and ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Derbyshire Law Centre
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Access to Justice Foundation - Community Justice Fund Wave Three
£12,196 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.
Access to Justice Foundation - Help Accessing Legal Support (HALS)
£90,000 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
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Derbyshire Law Centre
£20,000 21/04/2022
An unrestricted grant of £20,000 (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). Derbyshire Law Centre provides legal advice, casework, and representation to people across the county in the ....more
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£56,786 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 COVID30
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Recovery grant to Derbyshire Law Centre
£50,000 09/12/2020
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Derbyshire Law Centre, awarded under the Foundation's Homeless and Vulnerably Housed funding stream. Part of the Covid Recovery Fund to ....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
Alex Ferry Foundation - AFF communuity grant
£5,000 19/06/2020
community grant
CAF - Grant to Derbyshire Law Centre
£5,000 29/05/2020
3
Grant to Derbyshire Law Centre to support the organisation through COVID19
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Derbyshire Law Centre
£20,000 23/04/2020
An unrestricted grant of £20,000. provides legal services to people across the county in the areas of housing, homelessness, employment, debt, immigration and discrimination law
The Legal Education Foundation - JFF Host 2020
£77,407 13/03/2020
A grant to Derbyshire Law Centre to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 7.
AB Charitable Trust - Settlement advice service for refugees and migrants
£15,000 30/06/2016
£15,000 towards Derbyshire Settlement Advice Service to protect and integrate refugees/ families who are separated across international borders
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Derbyshire Law Centre
£27,900 21/01/2015
Building Communities: Social Housing Heritage in North Eastern Derbyshire
National Lottery Community Fund - Managing Demand 4 Advice across North Eastern Derbyshire Coalfields Distric
£343,399 25/04/2013
24
The aim of this new project is for Chesterfield Law Centre (CLC) to transform the provision of advice across the three highly deprived North Eastern Derbyshires Coalfields districts of Chesterfield, ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (13)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 27-90
  • ANGELA MARGARET SUSANNE WEBSTER LCCMD Appointed: 2018
  • DAVID ROLAND SHAW Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Retired
  • DUNCAN MCGREGOR Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Councillor
  • ELAINE TIDD Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Councillor
  • JENNY FLOOD Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Retired
  • JOHN DUNCAN Appointed: 2007, Occupation: Retired
  • JACK WOOLLEY Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Constituency Support Officer
  • KATHLEEN ROUSE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Councillor
  • MARTIN STONE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Councillor
  • MICK WILSON Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Welfare Rights Officer
  • ROBERT SOUTHWELL Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Senior Operations Manager
  • ROBERT WILLIAM BUSBY Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired
  • SARAH WHITE Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Legal Advisor
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 10/01/1990, number: 702419
  • Registered at Companies House on 15/12/1989, number: 02453081
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
  • Investing charity funds 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
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR23: 20 days late, AR18: 120 days late, AR16: 1 days late, AR11: 12 days late,
Main office

DERBYSHIRE LAW CENTRE
1 ROSE HILL EAST
CHESTERFIELD
DERBYSHIRE
S40 1NU

Objectives

(I) TO RELIEVE POOR PERSONS RESIDENT OR WORKING WITHIN THE AREA OF THE BOROUGH OF CHESTERFIELD AND NORTH EAST DERBYSHIRE AND ANY OTHER GEOGRAPHICAL AREA AS DIRECTED BY THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH LEGAL SERVICES WHICH THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE OBTAIN THROUGH LACK OF MEANS; (II) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY THE IMPROVEMENT AND DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE OF THE LAW AND THE PRACTICE OF THE LAW AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE, HAVING REGARD ESPECIALLY TO THOSE AREAS OF THE LAW WHICH ARE OF PARTICULAR CONCERN TO POOR PEOPLE OR ARE DIRECTED TO THE RELIEF OF POVERTY; (III) TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE BOROUGH OF CHESTERFIELD AND NORTH EAST DERBYSHIRE AND ANY OTHER GEOGRAPHICAL AREA AS DIRECTED BY THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

BOROUGH OF CHESTERFIELD AND NORTH EAST DERBYSHIRE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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