Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 5

No PartB

Narrow trustee age band: -2
Dynamic board: +3
Mainly male board: -1

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 5

PLUMSTEAD COMMUNITY LAW CENTRE LTD.

Legal advice, advocacy & representation in the areas of immigration, employment and welfare rights law

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

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 dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board is predominantly male
The Board has little diversity in terms of age
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

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	*	£234	£173	£61	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/22		£122	£152	£-30	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/21		£185	£158	£27	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/20		£163	£164	£-1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/19		£163	£140	£22	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/18		£160	£154	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	*	£181	£194	£-13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£198	£258	£-60	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£233	£256	£-23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£236	£342	£-105	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	*	£287	£359	£-72	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£318	£302	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£375	£358	£17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£378	£361	£17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	*	£387	£368	£19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	*	£341	£355	£-15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	*	£595	£590	£5	£50	£156	£148	3	9	0
31/03/06	*	£622	£596	£26	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£636	£614	£22	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	*	£563	£562	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 29 years
(40 years as a company)

www.pclc.org.uk

info@pclc.org.uk

02088539970

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

General Charitable Purposes

GiG Classification

Social & legal advocacy

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information

Where it operates

Greenwich,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Access to Justice Foundation - Community Justice Fund Wave Three
£14,672	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)
£37,500	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 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 welfare and family legal advice, to enable users to resolve these problems as early as possible and avoid the need for court or tribunal proceedings where possible. Where court or tribunal proceedings are needed, we expect the grant will provide the support needed to help people manage their way through the process effectively. A key feature of this programme is expected to focus on helping us all understand what works better in terms of service delivery and also to help make the case for future investment in this work.
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
Trust for London - Plumstead Community Law Centre Limited
£63,500	04/10/2017 36	The funding is towards our Employment Tribunal Representation Project which includes a volunteer training programme. All services to the clients are provided free of charge.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 64-80

CHRISTOPHER ARTHUR PURNELL Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired First Tier Tribunal Judge

ERNEST DYER Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Trustee

GEOFFREY OSIBO Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Accountant

KATHRYN BERNADETTE GRUBB Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Local Government Officer

LOVAT MICHAEL G REES Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Trustee

HUGH LANSDOWNE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Development Worker, Other trusteeship: LAMBETH ACCORD,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 03/01/1995, number: 1043070
Registered at Companies House on 14/12/1983, number: 01778148

Gift Aid

NOT 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
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: 19 days late, AR17: 170 days late, AR13: 11 days late, AR09: 89 days late, AR08: 132 days late, AR07: 133 days late, AR06: 174 days late, AR05: 96 days late, AR04: 67 days late,

Main office

36 WELLINGTON STREET
WOOLWICH
LONDON
SE18 6PE

Objectives

(1)TO RELIEVE POOR PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE BENEFIT AREA BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH LEGAL SERVICES WHICH THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE OBTAIN THROUGH LACK OF MEANS. (11)THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AMONG PERSONS RESIDENT OR WORKING IN THE BENEFIT AREA. (111)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:

LONDON BOROUGH OF GREENWICH, AND THAMESMEAD PART OF LONDON BOROUGH OF BEXLEY

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