Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 6
  • No PartB
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

BENEFIT ADVICE SHOP

The Benefit Advice Shop is an independent welfare rights organisation that gives free, impartial advice, assistance, advocacy and representation on social security law and welfare benefits. Clients use our full range of services through our telephone service open door unit and outreaches.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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 gender
  • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/24£153£106£46n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/23£110£124£-14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22*£142£121£21n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£131£118£13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20?£123£114£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£146£154£-8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£165£140£25n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£129£166£-37n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£155£179£-24n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£196£196£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£203£194£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£215£186£30n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£193£191£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£211£209£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£189£194£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£206£203£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07£174£156£18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£141£142£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£140£141£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£128£131£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 24 years

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Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Practical support, advice & companionship
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire,
  • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Postcode Community Trust£20,000
National Lottery Community Fund£18,673
Access to Justice Foundation£17,000
New Philanthropy Capital (NPC)£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Postcode Community Trust - Unrestricted Funding
£20,000 29/09/2023
Funding helped Benefits Advice Shop provide free, confidential advice to those who need assistance to navigate the welfare benefit system.
New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) - Open Philanthropy Fund B
£10,000 14/02/2023
Unrestricted funding to tackle financial hardship
National Lottery Community Fund - COVID - 19 Benefit Advice to unemployed and self employed following Covid
£8,937 24/01/2022
Benefit Advice Shop in Denbighshire will continue to provide advice and representation on Welfare Benefits and Social Security Law to people who have lost employment businesses or had hours or wages reduced due to the impact of COVID-19. £8937 will ....more
Access to Justice Foundation - 2021 CJF Crisis Fund
£17,000 20/10/2021
Top-up to address the increasing demand for advice
National Lottery Community Fund - COVID-19 Moving Forward
£9,736 07/09/2020
12
The Benefit Advice Shop in Denbighshire will safely deliver their services of providing advice advocacy and representation in a socially distanced way.£9736 will fund a part time Advisor advertising and admin costs. Bydd y Siop Cyngor ar ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Conwy Social Security Appeal Representation Service
£97,875 17/01/2019
36
Project Summary :_x000D_ The project will provide an Appeal Representation Service in Conwy to support people with welfare benefit tribunals, providing confidence to take their appeal forward and improving their financial ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Recession - Conwy Community Recession Advice Programme
£49,995 11/03/2010
23
The project will enhance the existing welfare rights support to the community of Conwy by increasing access to benefit advice and information.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 50-80
  • CAROLINE ANNE HOLLIDAY Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Medical Secretary
  • JAMES ALEXANDER BALL Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Unemployed
  • JOHN ROBERT DRUMMOND Appointed: 2020
  • MARIETTE GALE ROBERTS Appointed: 2009, Occupation: Teacher
  • MELANIE ANN JONES Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Unemployed
  • MICHAEL IAN SHIPLEY Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Youth Worker
  • PAULA DRUMMOND Appointed: 2020, Occupation: None
  • PAULA KEATING Appointed: 2016, Occupation: None
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/04/2001, number: 1086003
  • Registered at Companies House on 20/08/1999, number: 03828857
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
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR22: 45 days late,
Main office

19 Bedford Street
Rhyl
LL18 1SY

Objectives

1) TO RELIEVE POOR PERSONS RESIDING IN NORTH WALES, BY THE PROVISION OF LEGAL , INCOME AND SOCIAL RIGHTS ADVICE, AND AID WHICH THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE OBTAIN THROUGH LACK OF MEANS.2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN CHANGES IN THE BENEFIT SYSTEM, BY PUBLISHING SUCH CHANGES AND PROPOSED CHANGES

Defined Area of Benefit:

NORTH WALES

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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