Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 10

Liabilities <10%: +3
Excess reserves: -2
Volatile income
spending growth: -1

Good trustee age range: +3
Static board: -3
Mainly male board: -1

Grant maker support: +10

Overall GiG Score: 9

HACKNEY COMMUNITY LAW CENTRE

The charity's objects and its principal activity continues to be that of providing free accessible legal advice and representation to the local community in London Borough of Hackney.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has a robust balance sheet
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board is predominantly male
The Board composition appears to be rather static

Financial issues to consider:

This charity has substantial assets and unrestricted reserves of £1,207,365 available, equivalent to 26 months of spending and so may not be able to utilise additional funding
Income has been volatile recently but spending has been maintained

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		£594	£560	£34	£0	£1,207	£1,207	25.9	11	10
31/03/22		£622	£530	£92	£1	£1,173	£1,173	26.6	11	4
31/03/21		£873	£509	£364	£0	£1,081	£1,081	25.5	11	6
31/03/20		£853	£511	£342	£1	£717	£702	16.5	13	10
31/03/19	*	£525	£512	£13	£2	£375	£355	8.3	13	16
31/03/18		£537	£495	£42	£3	£361	£327	7.9	12	0
31/03/17		£588	£489	£99	£1	£319	£288	7.1	13	0
31/03/16		£590	£526	£64	£0	£220	£216	4.9	13	0
31/03/15		£546	£548	£-1	£4	£156	£156	3.4	14	0
31/03/14		£531	£497	£33	£4	£158	£158	3.8	11	0
31/03/13		£571	£559	£13	£4	£125	£125	2.7	11	0
31/03/12		£585	£576	£9	£4	£112	£110	2.3	11	0
31/03/11		£558	£541	£17	£4	£103	£97	2.2	14	0
31/03/10		£455	£404	£50	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	*	£426	£423	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£493	£441	£52	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07		£489	£474	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	*	£458	£458	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£440	£544	£-104	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	*	£508	£507	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 3%
Liabilities/Income: 6%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 25.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 26 months
Quick Ratio: 25

Asset Split ?

Established: 31 years

www.hclc.org.uk

admin@hclc.org.uk

02089855236

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Education/Training
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Amusement and recreation services

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Provides advocacy/advice/information

Where it operates

Hackney,

Who it helps

Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
Other Defined Groups
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

11 employees
10 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

National Lottery Community Fund	£499,191
Hackney Council	£263,000
City Bridge Trust	£168,945
Access to Justice Foundation	£16,396

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Hackney Advice Now
£499,191	07/03/2023	This project will use funding to tackle and mitigate the social and financial exclusion experienced within the borough by providing increased access to advice on housing and benefit support and to ....more This project will use funding to tackle and mitigate the social and financial exclusion experienced within the borough by providing increased access to advice on housing and benefit support and to advance digital inclusion and financial capability. The new service will enable people to be triaged more efficiently be offered welfare and housing drop in sessions twice weekly. There will also be financial capability workshops and support from the housing legal team for people that are threatened with homelessness.
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.
Hackney Council - Grant to Hackney Community Law Centre
£148,000	13/10/2022	Providing specialist qualified legal advice and other legal services.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Hackney Community Law Centre
£160,000	05/09/2022 36	£160,000 over three years (£52,000; £53,000; £55,000) for a Tribunals Caseworker to provide advice and support benefit clients on appeals to the First- and Upper-Tier Tribunals, and as a small ....more £160,000 over three years (£52,000; £53,000; £55,000) for a Tribunals Caseworker to provide advice and support benefit clients on appeals to the First- and Upper-Tier Tribunals, and as a small contribution to overheads.
Hackney Council - Grant to Hackney Community Law Centre
£115,000	10/12/2020 12	We provide specialist legal advice services including level 1 advice, casework and representation in all areas of social welfare law to residents in Hackney who experience poverty and disadvantage ....more We provide specialist legal advice services including level 1 advice, casework and representation in all areas of social welfare law to residents in Hackney who experience poverty and disadvantage and who require legal advice to assert their rights.
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£4,200	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
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Hackney Community Law Centre
£8,945	21/05/2020	A grant of £8,945 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the appliciation, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
National Lottery Community Fund - Hackney Advice Now Project
£312,644	01/10/2018 36	The project will provide an additional specialist housing and welfare benefits service. Training and development will be given to individuals to help them make informed decisions on their finances.
National Lottery Community Fund - Sustainable Advice in Hackney
£348,507	25/04/2013 24	This new project aims to ensure that a comprehensive spread of advice provision is maintained across the London Borough of Hackney despite the withdrawel of legal aid for social welfare advice whilst ....more This new project aims to ensure that a comprehensive spread of advice provision is maintained across the London Borough of Hackney despite the withdrawel of legal aid for social welfare advice whilst at the same time increasing resilience in the face of changes in the national and local funding environment as a result of pressures on public spending.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Hackney Community Law Centre
£26,800	27/04/2012	the travel and supervision costs of the Volunteer Interns

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How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 5/6 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 33-74

DENIZ OGUZKANLI Appointed: 2015

ALICE SARAH HOLT Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeship: HOLT CHARITABLE TRUST,

IAN JEFFREY BROWNE Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Advice & Information Officer

THOMAS HENRY GEORGE STOATE Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Barrister

VICTOR ALPHONSO MCALLISTER Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Chief Executive

IAN RATHBONE (Chair) Appointed: 1997, Occupation: Media Manager, Other trusteeship: CHATS PALACE LIMITED,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 15/01/1993, number: 1016171
Registered at Companies House on 12/11/1991, number: 02662363

Gift Aid

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; AR19: 19 days late, AR09: 19 days late, AR06: 2 days late, AR05: 108 days late, AR04: 1 days late,

Main office

Hackney Law Centre
8 Lower Clapton Road
London
E5 0PD

Objectives

(A) TO RELIEVE THE POVERTY OF PERSONS WHO ARE RESIDENT, WORKING OR STUDYING IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY AND GREATER LONDON (THE AREA OF BENEFIT), WITH PRIORITY TO BE GIVEN TO THOSE RESIDENT, WORKING OR STUDYING IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY, AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE COMPANY'S WORK, BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH LEGAL SERVICES WHICH THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE OBTAIN DUE TO LACK OF MEANS.(B) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF PERSONS RESIDENT, WORKING OR STUDYING IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY.(C) TO ADVANCE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY FOR PERSONS RESIDENT, WORKING OR STUDYING IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY AND GREATER LONDON

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