Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: -6

Support Score: 5

No PartB

Only 4 Trustees: -1
Narrow trustee age band: -2
All female board: -3

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: -1

OXFORD COMMUNITY WORK AGENCY LIMITED

The principle activity of the charity is to provide advice.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are only 4 trustees
The Board is completely female
The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Established: 29 years
(40 years as a company)

oxfordshirewelfarerights@btck.co.uk

SDARBY@OXFORDSHIREWELFARERIGHTS.ORG.UK

01865744165

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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		£320	£270	£49	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/22		£253	£234	£19	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/21		£253	£234	£19	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/20		£226	£257	£-31	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/19		£205	£205	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/18		£174	£192	£-18	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£244	£212	£32	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£300	£308	£-8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£322	£333	£-11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£397	£363	£34	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£397	£363	£34	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£355	£330	£25	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£366	£330	£35	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	*	£385	£363	£22	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	*	£373	£419	£-46	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£367	£408	£-41	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07		£339	£311	£28	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06		£271	£248	£23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£231	£234	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04		£227	£224	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Economic/Community Development/Employment
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information

Where it operates

Oxfordshire,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups

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

Access to Justice Foundation	£50,584
National Lottery Community Fund	£9,900
DCMS	£9,600

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Access to Justice Foundation - Improving Outcomes Through Legal Support (IOTLS) grant
£23,149	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 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 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 to provide the support needed to help people navigate the process effectively, including where support to prepare for court and at court is required.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,600	11/09/2020	"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more "The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£27,435	16/07/2020	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
National Lottery Community Fund - Reducing social isolation in Barton
£9,900	01/08/2019 12	The organisation will use funding to continue providing advice about benefits and welfare to the local community in Oxford. The project aims to support the local community to resolve issues.
Oxford City Council - Grant to Oxford Community Work Agency
£116,480	01/04/2019	Funding awarded for core costs to deliver welfare advice
Oxford City Council - Grant to Oxford Community Work Agency
£116,480	13/02/2018	Funding awarded for core costs to deliver welfare advice

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 66-76

DEBORAH MARY SCARBOROUGH Appointed: 2023

NORMAN LYN THOMAS WILLIAMS Appointed: 2008, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeship: NEW LIFE NYAMBENE,

SUSAN HOLDEN Appointed: 2004, Occupation: Retired

TERESA CLARE MUNBY Appointed: 2003, Occupation: Law Tutor

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/09/1995, number: 1049343
Registered at Companies House on 24/01/1984, number: 01785651

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Other Regulators

Financial Conduct Authority

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
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; AR10: 18 days late, AR09: 108 days late,

Main office

BARTON NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE
UNDERHILL CIRCUS
HEADINGTON
OXFORD
OX3 9LS

Objectives

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE CITY AND THE COUNTY OF OXFORD, (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE AREA OF BENEFIT) BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS

Defined Area of Benefit:

OXFORDSHIRE

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