Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 13
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +13
Overall GiG Score: 24 ?

NORFOLK COMMUNITY LAW SERVICE LIMITED 

Increase the access to justice for the people of Norfolk by providing free advice, assistance and representation in all areas of social welfare law, including debt, employment, family courts, domestic abuse, immigration, welfare benefits and discrimination.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • 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 and dynamic in terms of composition
Established: 26 years

www.ncls.co.uk

info@ncls.co.uk

01603496623

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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£1,043£910£133£19£486£2733.6300
31/03/22£890£837£53£13£353£1972.827134
31/03/21£810£700£110£9£300£2444.224129
31/03/20£562£572£-10£10£190£1853.920120
31/03/19£596£523£74£1£200£176420134
31/03/18£470£473£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£392£414£-22£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£381£396£-14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£377£361£16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£355£321£34£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£273£261£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£216£227£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£212£197£15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£196£160£36£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£163£144£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£145£156£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£112£80£32£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£43£41£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£35£28£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£25£32£-8£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 1.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 2%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 50%
Liabilities/Income: 47%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 56%
Reserves/Spending: 3.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 1.3
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Norfolk,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 30 employees

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£742,364
The Legal Education Foundation£261,000
Henry Smith Charity£180,000
Home Office£158,220
National Lottery Community Fund£150,000
Tudor Trust£92,000
AB Charitable Trust£50,000
Justice Together Initiative£18,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Access to Justice Foundation - Improving Lives Through Advice Grant
£500,000 01/03/2024
The Improving Lives Through Advice programme is made possible by a £30 million grant from The National Lottery Community Fund, thanks to National Lottery players. Working in partnership with the ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Justice in One Place
£150,000 03/08/2023
The funding will be used to support vulnerable clients in the justice system. The project aims to ensure their service is accessible for all allowing all to get necessary advice.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Norfolk Community Law Service
£5,000 20/10/2022
An unrestricted grant of £5,000. Norfolk Community Law Service provides free legal advice, including immigration and welfare benefit advice to people in Norfolk.
Access to Justice Foundation - Help Accessing Legal Support (HALS)
£57,797 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
Justice Together Initiative - Development grant: strengthening capacity and coordination in East of England to deliver specialist immigration advice
£18,500 05/07/2022
Development grant to fund a consultant to identify the challenges facing the East of England in the provision of specialist immigration advice. Develop a proposal/s for accessible, sustainable, ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Norfolk Community Law Service
£15,000 17/06/2022
An unrestricted grant of £15,000 (This grant is renewable - year 3 of 3 years). Norfolk Community Law Service aims to provide access to justice and equality to disadvantaged and vulnerable groups ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Norfolk Community Law Service
£180,000 15/06/2022
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towards three years' continuation funding of the 'Financial Inclusion Project', providing specialist Debt, Welfare Benefits and Immigration advice for vulnerable people in Norfolk.
The Legal Education Foundation - JFF Host 2022
£111,000 15/06/2022
A grant to Norfolk Community Law Service to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 9. Co-funded by Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.
The Legal Education Foundation - Strengthening collaborative, community-based family and domestic abuse legal services
£150,000 15/06/2022
Supporting development work to create sustainable family and domestic abuse legal services in East Anglia. Working in partnership with Suffolk Law Centre.
Access to Justice Foundation - Improving Outcomes Through Legal Support (IOTLS) grant
£39,568 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
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£70,000 11/08/2021
A flexible grant as part of wave 2 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID84
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Norfolk Community Law Service
£15,000 14/06/2021
An unrestricted grant of £15,000 (This grant is renewable - year 2 of up to 3 years). Norfolk Community Law Service aims to provide access to justice and equality to disadvantaged and vulnerable ....more
Home Office - EU Settlement Grant Scheme Funding
£97,783 01/04/2021
This grants scheme will enable organisations to provide practical support to vulnerable EU citizens to help them make their EU Settlement Scheme application by 30 June 2021 and continuing support ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Norfolk Community Law Service Ltd
£2,000 18/03/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£75,000 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
Tudor Trust - Grant to Norfolk Community Law Service Ltd
£90,000 10/07/2020
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over three years as core funding towards debt, welfare, benefits and immigration services at a charity providing free legal advice in Norfolk for people who cannot afford to pay
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Norfolk Community Law Service
£15,000 02/07/2020
An unrestricted grant of £15,000 (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). Norfolk Community Law Service aims to provide access to justice and equality to disadvantaged and vulnerable ....more
Home Office - EU Settlement Grant Scheme Funding 21/22
£60,437 01/04/2020
This grants scheme will enable organisations to provide practical support to vulnerable EU citizens to help them make their EU Settlement Scheme application by 30 June 2021 and continuing support ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Norfolk Community Law Service
£15,000 24/01/2019
£15,000 towards debt and welfare benefits service. Norfolk Community Law Service free legal advice and casework for debt & welfare benefits advice and family court support.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Norfolk Community Law Service
£76,900 07/12/2017
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing specialist debt and welfare benefits casework and representation to vulnerable people in Norfolk
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Norfolk Community Law Service Ltd
£15,000 27/04/2017
£15,000 towards specialist debt and welfare advice, casework and representation. Norfolk Community Law Service delivers free legal advice and casework for debt & welfare benefits advice and ....more
AB Charitable Trust - Financial Inclusion Project
£10,000 26/04/2016
£10,000 towards specialist debt and welfare advice, casework and representation
Comic Relief - Financial Inclusion Project
£123,910 16/03/2016
36
Marginalised groups and people who have complex needs are particularly vulnerable to high levels of poverty and debt. Norfolk Community Law Service provides specialist debt and benefits advice, ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - North Norfolk Advice Network
£316,115 19/04/2013
24
The aim of this new project is to explore more cost effective and innovative ways to deliver specialist advice to residents of North Norfolk. The project will deliver specialist advice via a new IT ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Norfolk Community Law Service
£30,000 30/05/2012
the salary of the Co-ordinator/Adviser, management, administration, accommodation, training, expenses, IT, telephone, insurance, low level immigration and interpretation
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How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 10/11 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 23-72
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 07/04/1998, number: 1069066
  • Registered at Companies House on 10/03/1998, number: 03524607
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
  • 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
  • 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; all on time
Main office

14
Prince of Wales Road
Norwich
Norfolk
NR1 1LB

Objectives

1. TO IDENTIFY PROBLEMS OF ACCESS BY NEEDY PEOPLE TO LEGAL SERVICES 2. ESTABLISH AN INDEPENDENT LAW CENTRE (AS CONSTITUTED FROM TIME TO TIME) WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT TO RELIEVE CHARITABLE NEED, IN PARTICULAR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, BY THE PROVISION OF A LEGAL AID SERVICE TO THOSE IN NEED 3. PROVIDE ADVICE ASSISTANCE AND REPRESENTATION TO NEEDY PERSONS RESIDENT OR WORKING IN THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK ('THE AREA OF BENEFIT'). 4. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY THE IMPROVEMENT AND DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE OF THE LAW ITS PRACTICE AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE HAVING REGARD ESPECIALLY TO THOSE AREAS OF LAW WHICH ARE OF PARTICULAR CONCERN TO POOR PEOPLE OR WHICH ARE DIRECTED TO THE RELIEF OF POVERTY DISTRESS OR SICKNESS. 5. TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

COUNTY OF NORFOLK

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