Finance Score: 3

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 8

Good reserves management: +3

Good trustee age range: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +8

Overall GiG Score: 17

RICHMOND ADVICE AND INFORMATION ON DISABILITY (RAID)

Richmond AID runs services for disabled people including an Information Navigation and Advice Service, Money Advice, Benefits Service, Job Club, Peer Network, Spade gardening service and more.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
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 well diversified in terms of age and gender

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		£1,034	£1,004	£30	£0	£375	£346	4.1	25	70
31/03/22		£760	£776	£-16	£0	£345	£345	5.3	20	65
31/03/21		£736	£721	£15	£0	£361	£361	6	14	74
31/03/20		£636	£603	£33	£0	£346	£346	6.9	17	65
31/03/19		£672	£734	£-62	£0	£313	£310	5.1	24	60
31/03/18		£919	£830	£90	£0	£375	£365	5.3	18	0
31/03/17		£719	£738	£-19	£0	£285	£228	3.7	12	0
31/03/16		£777	£815	£-38	£0	£304	£298	4.4	13	0
31/03/15		£994	£828	£166	£828	£345	£320	4.6	13	0
31/03/14		£492	£450	£42	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£385	£338	£47	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£322	£295	£27	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£315	£310	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£287	£299	£-12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£335	£326	£9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£334	£323	£11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07		£279	£270	£9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	*	£209	£221	£-12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£178	£180	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04		£167	£153	£14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 35%
Liabilities/Income: 19%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 92%
Reserves/Spending: 4.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 2.5

Asset Split ?

Established: 25 years

www.richmondaid.org.uk

info@richmondaid.org.uk

020 8831 6070

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Disability
Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
Recreation
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Services for people with disabilities

How it operates

Other charitable activities
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Brent, Hounslow, Kingston Upon Thames, Lambeth, Richmond Upon Thames,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Defined Groups
People With Disabilities

Who works here?

25 employees
70 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

Trust for London	£152,400
Garfield Weston Foundation	£40,000
DCMS	£9,975
The London Community Foundation	£9,884

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Trust for London - Richmond Advice and Information on Disability (RAID)
£64,500	24/08/2023	The funding is for the salary of a part time Benefits Advisor, working 21 hours per week, to continue delivering their Benefits Advice service for disabled people in the borough of Hounslow.
Trust for London - Richmond Advice & Information on Disability
£2,900	29/09/2022	This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-04.02.2020-8257
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£15,000	01/04/2022	Richmond AID -core costs
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£15,000	26/02/2021	Richmond AID -core costs
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,975	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."
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Richmond Advice & Information on Disability
£9,884	14/08/2020	Advice and Information service for disabled adults (benefits advice, housing, money and debt advice) across Richmond and Hounslow boroughs. We will extend our currently commissoned Information ....more Advice and Information service for disabled adults (benefits advice, housing, money and debt advice) across Richmond and Hounslow boroughs. We will extend our currently commissoned Information Navigation, Benefits Advice and Money Advice services into the Hounslow borough as well as increase the support we provide in Richmond.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Richmond Advice and Information on Disability (RAID)
£7,000	11/06/2020	£7,000.00 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, in order to carry on providing support to Londoners
Trust for London - Richmond Advice & Information on Disability
£85,000	05/03/2020 36	The funding is for a new Benefits Advice Service for disabled people in the borough of Hounslow. The new service will support 200 people per year in Hounslow to get benefits they are entitled to by ....more The funding is for a new Benefits Advice Service for disabled people in the borough of Hounslow. The new service will support 200 people per year in Hounslow to get benefits they are entitled to by supporting the with form filling, making and preparing mandatory re-considerations and appeals.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000	15/07/2019	Richmond AID - core costs
Department for Work and Pensions - Journey to Employment (J2E) payments to DPULOs and VSOs (2018)
£33,932	01/04/2018	Creating peer support Job Clubs to help disabled claimants get back into employment
Department for Work and Pensions - Journey to Employment (J2E) payments to DPULOs and VSOs (2018)
£15,032	01/04/2018	Creating peer support Job Clubs to help disabled claimants get back into employment
Department for Work and Pensions - Jobs to Employment (J2E) payments to DPULOs and VSOs)
£53,229	01/04/2017	Creating peer support Job Clubs to help disabled claimants get back into employment
Department for Work and Pensions - Jobs to Employment (J2E) payments to DPULOs and VSOs)
£53,813	01/04/2017	Creating peer support Job Clubs to help disabled claimants get back into employment

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How is it governed?

Trustees (12)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 10/12 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 44-83

CECILIA BERNADETTE WATTS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired

IRENE DARA Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Unemployed

ISMET SAMJI Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Retired

VENNA RODEN (Chair) Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Retired

CLARE TANSWELL Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Librarian

DAVID MERKEL Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Retired

EDWARD BOAMAH Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Teacher

JOANNE ATKINSON Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Retired

PAULINE HILL Appointed: 2004, Occupation: Retired

ANDREW CRAIG Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeship: KEW NEIGHBOURHOOD ASSOCIATION,

CLAIRE NEWTON Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Finance Director, Other trusteeship: HELPFORCE COMMUNITY,

SCOTTY MCLEOD Appointed: 2017, Occupation: It Consultant, Other trusteeship: HEALTHWATCH KINGSTON UPON THAMES,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 23/03/1999, number: 1074788
Registered at Companies House on 10/08/1998, number: 03612476

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; AR06: 1 days late,

Main office

DISABILITY ACTION & ADVICE CENTRE
4 WALDEGRAVE ROAD
TEDDINGTON
TW11 8HT

Objectives

TO RELIEVE DISABLED PERSONS IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND AND ELSEWHERE

Defined Area of Benefit:

LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND AND ELSEWHERE

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