Overall GiG Score: -3 ?
Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: -4
Support Score: 6
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Grant maker support: +6

THE IPSWICH DISABLED ADVICE BUREAU 

We provide free and confidential information & advice to people with disabilities, their families and carers, provide information to organisations & agencies serving people with disabilities, work for improved statutory services, educate public opinion, and undertake research.We cover the Ipswich area and south-east Suffolk from the coast almost to Sudbury an including the Hadleigh area.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 3 trustees
  • 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
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 28 years

www.ipswichdab.org.uk

bureau@ipswichdab.org.uk

01473 217313

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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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£97£98£-1n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/22*£87£116£-29n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/03/21£141£108£33n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/20*£68£104£-36n/an/an/an/an/a13
31/03/19£130£123£7n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/18*£120£135£-16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17*£136£124£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£122£139£-16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£142£128£14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£130£124£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£127£117£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12*£78£92£-14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£79£86£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£83£84£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£85£85£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£86£82£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£83£81£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£85£85£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£85£83£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£77£83£-6£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
Who works here?
  • 5 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Suffolk,

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
DCMS£45,000
Access to Justice Foundation£26,003
Suffolk Community Foundation£17,201
National Lottery Community Fund£9,944
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Appeals and Tribunals and Covid-19
£9,944 01/07/2022
The funding will be used to continue to provide support and representation to clients with disabilities to appeal benefit decisions at an independent tribunal hearing. The project aims to help ....more
Suffolk Community Foundation - Referrals from connect for health
£2,000 22/06/2021
To contribute towards the costs of the referrals received from the Social Prescribing team.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Referrals from connect for health
£1,201 22/06/2021
To contribute towards the costs of the referrals received from the Social Prescribing team.
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£26,003 07/09/2020
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
Suffolk Community Foundation - Core Costs and Coronavirus Lock Down
£5,000 04/09/2020
1
Supporting Core Running Costs for a disability advice service. C19
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£5,000 04/09/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
Suffolk Community Foundation - Suffolks hardship fund.
£4,000 27/08/2020
1
To support those in hardship that are referred to the Ipswich Disabled advice bureau.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£40,000 11/08/2020
"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
Suffolk Community Foundation - Core funding to cope with the coronavirus epidemic
£5,000 03/04/2020
2
To enable the organisation to continue to provide its services remotely during the Coronavirus lock down. Covid19
Suffolk Community Foundation - Universal Credit in Rural Areas
£3,999 09/08/2018
12
To provide support for claimants of Universal Credits with disabilities in South East Suffolk to access their online accounts.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Internet Cafe
£16,721 12/07/2018
11
Towards the internet cafe which will support those with learning disabilities into the work place.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Grant to Ipswich Disabled Advice Bureau
£10,000 14/03/2017
Towards one year's salary and on cost of the Bureau Manager at a project providing information and advice to people with disabilities in Suffolk.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Ipswich Disabled Advice Bureau
£10,000 09/03/2017
12
towards one year's salary of the Bureau Manager at a project providing information and advice to disabled people in Suffolk
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Ipswich Disabled Advice Bureau
£10,000 16/03/2015
12
towards one year's running costs of a project providing information and advice to people with disabilities in Suffolk
National Lottery Community Fund - Coping with change
£263,838 08/10/2013
60
This is a new project by The Ipswich Disabled Advice Bureau (IDAB) which will support people with disabilities to reduce their levels of isolation and improve their health and wellbeing by developing ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Ipswich Disabled Advice Bureau
£30,000 28/06/2013
The charity provides advice & volunteering opportunities to disabled people. With support from the Senior Advice worker clients have reduced stress, reduced isolation and improved finances ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Ipswich Disabled Advice Bureau
£5,000 13/06/2013
towards one year's core costs of a project providing information and advice to people with disabilities in Suffolk
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees:
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 22/04/1996, number: 1054802
  • Registered at Companies House on 19/03/1996, number: 03174876
Gift Aid
  • 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
  • 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
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR22: 3 days late, AR20: 107 days late, AR18: 91 days late, AR17: 1 days late, AR12: 686 days late,
Main office

19 TOWER STREET
IPSWICH
IP1 3BE

Objectives

FOR THE RELIEF OF DISABLED PERSONS LIVING IN IPSWICH AND THE SURROUNDING DISTRICT IN THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK AND TO ASSIST THOSE PERSONS BY THE PROVISION OF A DIRECT INFORMATION AND ADVICE SERVICE AND THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH INTO METHODS OF RELIEVING THEIR DISABILITY AND PUBLICATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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