Finance Score: 1

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 8

Reasonable growth: +1
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3

Grant maker support: +8

Overall GiG Score: 12

BRENT IRISH ADVISORY SERVICE

The company is a charity striving to relieve poverty, disadvantage and social exclusion among vulnerable Irish people locally in Brent and across Britain. To achieve this BIAS provides a range of advice, information, support, recreational and welfare facilities, as well as contributing to local and national developments affecting the client group.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been reasonable growth in spending 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 and there are significant future grants due to be received
The Board appears to be well diversified 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: 27 years
(35 years as a company)

http://www.biasbrent.co.uk

info@biasbrent.co.uk

02084596655

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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		£262	£246	£15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
31/03/22		£251	£227	£23	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
31/03/21		£218	£214	£4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
31/03/20		£156	£160	£-4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
31/03/19		£132	£150	£-18	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
31/03/18		£150	£174	£-24	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£211	£195	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£177	£195	£-18	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£208	£208	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£193	£169	£24	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£195	£213	£-18	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	*	£297	£248	£49	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	*	£271	£265	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£352	£337	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	*	£377	£413	£-35	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	*	£387	£428	£-40	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	*	£348	£389	£-41	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	*	£384	£349	£35	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£409	£349	£60	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	*	£352	£332	£20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Accommodation/Housing
Disability
Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
Other Charitable Purposes
Recreation
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Other charitable activities
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Barnet, Brent, Camden, City Of Westminster, Ealing, Hammersmith And Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
People With Disabilities

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
6 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	£297,320
Trust for London	£95,925
DCMS	£10,000
National Lottery Community Fund	£9,950
The London Community Foundation	£6,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Trust for London - Brent Irish Advisory Service - BIAS Community Services
£7,425	29/09/2022	This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-01.06.2021-9139
National Lottery Community Fund - Irish Hearts Engagement
£9,950	21/01/2022	The funding will be used to renew the current website. The project aims for the older community to be able to access services/activities more easily as this is currently difficult to navigate.
London Catalyst - Brent Irish Advisory Service - 2
£2,000	16/11/2021	BIAS in Ealing
London Catalyst - Brent Irish Advisory Service - 3
£250	16/11/2021	Hardship Fund
Trust for London - Brent Irish Advisory Service - BIAS Community Services
£88,500	06/10/2021 36	The funding is for a new Housing Advice Worker, who will take up housing cases to increase its capacity to help reduce homelessness, housing disrepair and precarious housing conditions.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Brent Irish Advisory Service
£37,320	02/09/2020	towards the costs outlined in your application of adapting your advice and community engagement service including the cost of community engagement worker and administration coordinator roles
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000	03/07/2020	"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."
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Brent Irish Advisory Service
£6,000	12/05/2020	increased costs to our charity in delivering our services differently. We can no longer provide a face to face service, and have increased communication costs (phone/letters). Our client group is a ....more increased costs to our charity in delivering our services differently. We can no longer provide a face to face service, and have increased communication costs (phone/letters). Our client group is a hard to reach group and are there are difficulties in engaging with them in a non-face to face manner. We have adapted our services to telephone services and we need to be able to increase this support.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Brent Irish Advisory Service
£4,000	13/04/2020	A grant of £4,000 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Brent Irish Advisory Service
£12,400	09/04/2020	A one-off, unrestricted grant of £12,400, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisation’s current grant.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Brent Irish Advisory Service
£243,600	28/11/2019 60	£243,600 over five years (£49,600; £47,300; £48,100; £49,200; £49,400) towards the costs of a full time Poverty Worker and associated running costs.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Brent Irish Advisory Service
£4,025	16/12/2015	promoting welfare and the relief of poverty of Irish people in Britain. The grant will fund gaining the Advice Quality Standard for its information and advice service.

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 5/6 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 43-81

EDDIE O'KANE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Chief Executive

JARLATH O'HARA Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Business Consultant

KAY BOLAND Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired

MR C MOLONEY (Chair), Occupation: Retired Housing Worker

MR D U MACCRAITH, Occupation: Retired Social Worker, Other trusteeship: NORTH WEST LONDON LAW CENTRES,

THOMAS TRAYNOR Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Retired

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 16/12/1996, number: 1059801
Registered at Companies House on 22/06/1988, number: 02269918

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
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; AR12: 1 days late, AR11: 2 days late, AR09: 34 days late, AR08: 1 days late, AR07: 37 days late, AR06: 14 days late, AR04: 26 days late,

Main office

Brent Irish Advisory Service
379-381 High Road
Willesden
London
NW10 2JR

Objectives

1. Objects1.1 The Objects of the Charity are for the public benefit:(1) to promote the welfare and relieve the poverty of the beneficiaries by all practical means in particular by the provision of information and assistance to beneficiaries in need of such by persons of their physical and social conditions(2) to provide facilities for recreation with the object of improving the conditions of life and social welfare of the beneficiaries(3) to advance the education of the public in general and of the beneficiaries in particular(4) to undertake any other charitable activity for the benefit of the beneficiariesIn this clause the beneficiaries shall mainly be but not exclusively Irish people or their descendants in Britain.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED - IN PRACTICE THE LONDON BOROUGH OF BRENT

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