Finance Score: -3

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 8

Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -2 times
Reasonable growth: +1
Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3

Grant maker support: +8

Overall GiG Score: 11

SPRINGFIELD ADVICE AND LAW CENTRE LIMITED

Springfield Advice & Law Centre provides independent legal advice for service users of South West London & St Georges Mental Health (NHS) Trust. It offers specialist advice and representation in housing, community care, debt and welfare benefits; plus general advice and referral in other areas of law; and provides information on legal matters affecting mental health service users.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been reasonable growth in spending 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 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
Accounts have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Established: 33 years

http://www.springfieldlawcentre.org.uk/

info@springfieldlawcentre.org.uk

07957644468

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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		£259	£262	£-3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/22		£220	£269	£-49	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/21	*	£302	£206	£95	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/20	*	£158	£227	£-68	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/19		£187	£195	£-8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1
31/03/18		£287	£190	£96	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£285	£208	£77	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£349	£292	£57	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£237	£268	£-31	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£223	£212	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£297	£269	£28	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	*	£263	£289	£-26	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	*	£265	£294	£-29	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£265	£240	£25	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£206	£193	£14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£123	£117	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	*	£123	£105	£18	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	*	£179	£180	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£258	£256	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04		£251	£245	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Accommodation/Housing
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information

Where it operates

Merton, Sutton, Wandsworth,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
Other Defined Groups
People With Disabilities

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
2 volunteers

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

City Bridge Trust	£256,000
Tudor Trust	£68,000
Access to Justice Foundation	£50,000
Department for Work and Pensions	£3,181

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Department for Work and Pensions - ATLAS GLOBAL LOGISTICS LIMMITED TA INXPRESS EAST ANGLIA
£3,181	01/04/2022	The Kickstart Scheme provides funding to employers to create jobs for 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Springfield Advice & Law Centre
£256,000	09/03/2022 60	£256,000 over five years (£48,500; £50,000; £51,000; £52,500; £54,000) for a full-time Senior Money Advisor to deliver free debt and welfare benefits advice to mental health service users in ....more £256,000 over five years (£48,500; £50,000; £51,000; £52,500; £54,000) for a full-time Senior Money Advisor to deliver free debt and welfare benefits advice to mental health service users in Wandsworth, Kingston-upon-Thames, Richmond, and Sutton.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Springfield Advice & Law Centre
£2,000	11/01/2021	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
£50,000	19/08/2020	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
Tudor Trust - Grant to Springfield Advice & Law Centre (COVID19 Grant)
£6,000	04/05/2020 12	as a development grant towards upgrading IT for this law centre working with people with mental health issues in South London, so they can provide better support to their clients during the ....more as a development grant towards upgrading IT for this law centre working with people with mental health issues in South London, so they can provide better support to their clients during the Coronavirus crisis
Tudor Trust - Grant to Springfield Advice & Law Centre
£60,000	04/10/2019 24	over two years as continuation funding towards the core costs of a law centre supporting people with mental health problems from a base in Springfield Hospital, South London
Tudor Trust - Grant to Springfield Advice & Law Centre
£80,000	19/07/2017 24	over two years towards case worker salaries at a Law Centre based in Springfield Hospital in South London
Tudor Trust - Grant to Springfield Advice & Law Centre
£80,000	14/08/2015 24	over two years towards the salaries of case workers at a law centre based in Springfield Hospital, an NHS mental health hospital in South West London
National Lottery Community Fund - Modernising Merton Advice
£301,190	19/04/2013 36	The aim of this new project is to provide an effective advisory service throughout the London boroughs of Merton and Lambeth which will deal with advice relating to employment law, housing advice, ....more The aim of this new project is to provide an effective advisory service throughout the London boroughs of Merton and Lambeth which will deal with advice relating to employment law, housing advice, debt management and welfare benefits.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 25-88

AUDREY DEHANEY Appointed: 2010, Occupation: Retired La Officer

CHINELO NNADI Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Administrator

DANIELA AMADIO Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Sales Person

GRAINNE DARLOW (Chair) Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Financial Adviser

PATRICK MARPLES Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Charity Director

RUSSELL JOHN MAKIN Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Retired Civic Servant

VANESSA ANENDEN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Legal Adviser

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 11/06/1991, number: 1003145
Registered at Companies House on 14/05/1991, number: 02610711

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Other Regulators

Financial Conduct Authority

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Investment
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; AR21: 325 days late, AR20: 12 days late, AR12: 22 days late, AR11: 1 days late, AR07: 1 days late, AR06: 1 days late, AR05: 2 days late,

Main office

Newton Building 7
Springfield Hospital
61 Glenburnie Road
LONDON
SW17 7DJ

Objectives

(1) TO PROVIDE AT SPRINGFIELD HOSPITAL AND AT OTHER HOSPITALS, DAY CARE CENTRES AND OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS FOR THE CARE OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MENTAL ILLNESS OR DISORDER WITHIN THE AREA OF MERTON SUTTON AND WANDSWORTH HEALTH AUTHORITY AREA OR THE LONDON BOROUGH OF WANDSWORTH OR THE LONDON BOROUGH OF MERTON OR THE LONDON BOROUGH OF SUTTON OR ANY LONDON BOROUGH OR LOCAL AUTHORITY TO WHICH SOUTH WEST LONDON AND ST GEORGE'S MENTAL HEALTH NHS TRUST PROVIDES SERVICES, LEGAL AND OTHER ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE TO PERSONS REQUIRING THAT ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE BY REASON OF THEIR PHYSICAL OR MENTAL ILLNESS OR DISORDER, OR NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS (2) TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF SUFFERING DUE TO MENTAL ILLNESS OR DISORDER BY PROVIDING EDUCATION IN THE LEGAL AND OTHER ASPECTS OF SUCH ILLNESS AND DISORDER AND OF PROBLEMS AFFECTING PERSONS WITH SUCH ILLNESS OR DISORDER

Defined Area of Benefit:

LONDON BOROUGHS OF SUTTON, WANDSWORTH AND MERTON

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