Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 10
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

ISLAND ADVICE CENTRE 

IAC is an independent advice service that provides support and guidance on statutory rights and entitlement to local residents. Areas of advice include; welfare rights, housing, debt. Advice is given from basic level up to specialist casework. In addition the organisation provides training and volunteering opportunities to individuals interested in developing advice skills.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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

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: 25 years
(26 years as a company)

www.island-advice.org.uk

admin@island-advice.org.uk

02075380094

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseX
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*£409£395£14n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/22£367£373£-7n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/03/21£452£408£44n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/20£396£419£-23n/an/an/an/an/a38
31/03/19£365£382£-16n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/03/18£335£353£-19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£350£331£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£522£505£17£0£126£1182.890
31/03/15£608£648£-40£6£109£1052120
31/03/14£491£547£-55£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£512£498£14£498£204£1643.9100
31/03/12£525£509£15£5£190£1904.5100
31/03/11£665£598£67£598£175£1753.5100
31/03/10£631£682£-51£4£108£1081.9130
31/03/09£478£435£44£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£400£353£46£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£396£398£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£370£349£20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£244£234£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£236£231£4£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Education/Training
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 10 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Tower Hamlets,

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
National Lottery Community Fund£312,439
Trust for London£133,265
City Bridge Trust£113,500
Access to Justice Foundation£46,000
London Legal Support Trust£10,000
DCMS£9,059
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Life after Debt
£302,689 16/12/2022
Island Advice Centre (IAC) is seeking funding of £302689 over a period of 3 years to deliver a partnership project with Bromley by Bow Centre (BbBC) offering a co-located and integrated debt and ....more
Trust for London - Island Advice Centre
£124,000 05/04/2022
The funding is for costs for a 4 day a week supervising housing caseworker, to delivering housing legal advice and casework for those not eligible for legal aid; training and factsheets for ....more
London Legal Support Trust - Centres of Excellence 2021
£10,000 14/12/2021
Long term core funding for specialist free legal advice organisations, along with in-kind help and support with ongoing development. Aiming to support a sustainable and robust specialist advice ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Island Advice Centre
£101,000 07/01/2021
£101,000 for a further and final two years (£49,800; £51,200) towards the salaries of a Welfare Rights Caseworker (0.6 fte) and a WR Supervisor (0.4 fte) and associated costs to provide a welfare ....more
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£46,000 21/09/2020
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
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,059 04/09/2020
"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
Trust for London - Island Advice Centre
£9,265 19/08/2020
6
The funding is for 3 high-quality laptops to pilot a new cloud-based, laptop-based system of working; IT consultancy to set up and equip the laptops, and 2 days a week Advice Service Coordinator time ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Island Advice Centre
£12,500 09/04/2020
A one-off, unrestricted grant of £12,500, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisation’s current grant. COVID19
National Lottery Community Fund - Tower Hamlets Trainee Advice Project
£9,750 31/05/2019
12
The funding will be used to support unemployed people in achieving professional qualifications through a volunteering programme. The project aims to facilitate career development and improve chances ....more
Trust for London - Island Advice Centre
£124,000 20/02/2019
36
The funding is for the salary of an existing Housing Caseworker, to deliver housing legal advice and casework for those not eligible for legal aid; deliver training; produce factsheets; and advocate ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Island Advice Centre
£148,000 20/09/2017
36
£148,000 over 3 years (£48,600, £49,400 £50,000) for a f/t Welfare Benefits Case Worker, associated costs and costs for training and supporting volunteers.
AB Charitable Trust - Community legal advice and training
£10,000 28/04/2015
£10,000 towards running costs of a weekly drop in advice session and casework
National Lottery Community Fund - Tower Hamlets Advice Transition Partnership
£349,378 19/04/2013
24
This new project aims to meet a significant increase in the expected demand for advice services in Tower Hamlets resulting from welfare reform and a reduction in funding for specialist social welfare ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Advice for All in Tower Hamlets
£238,113 17/05/2012
36
This project aims to ensure people living in disadvantaged communities in Tower Hamlets are able to access free specialist welfare, housing and debt advice where and when they need it by providing ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 40-71
  • CHRIS PARSONS Appointed: 2010, Occupation: Welfare Rights Advisor
  • CATHY WEIR Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Projects Manager
  • STEVEN LAKE Appointed: 1999, Occupation: Retired Local Gov Officer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/08/1999, number: 1076857
  • Registered at Companies House on 23/05/1997, number: 03375266
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Financial Conduct Authority
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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; AR23: 7 days late, AR05: 1 days late,
Main office

ISLAND HOUSE
ROSERTON STREET
LONDON
E14 3PG

Objectives

TO RELIEVE POVERTY IN THE AREA KNOWN AS THE ISLE OF DOGS AND NEARBY AREAS BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN THE FIELD OF WELFARE AND INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LONDON BOROUGH OF TOWER HAMLET

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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