Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 7
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

ST LUKES ADVICE SERVICE 

Provision of free advice on debt and benefits. Legal representation at benefit appeals
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • 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 and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 21 years

www.stlukesadviceservice.org.uk

info@stlukesadviceservice.org.uk

01273549203

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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£89£108£-19n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/03/22£105£96£9n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/21£100£86£15n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/20£84£91£-7n/an/an/an/an/a7
31/03/19£67£83£-16n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/18?£92£91£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/16£55£54£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/15£53£45£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/14£69£47£22£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/13£38£38£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/12£34£46£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/11£44£44£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/10£43£49£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/09£28£25£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/08£28£25£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/07£21£16£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/06£12£11£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/05£34£26£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/04£25£22£3£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • East Sussex,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 4 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
Sussex Community Foundation£35,000
National Lottery Community Fund£29,194
Garfield Weston Foundation£25,000
DCMS£8,934
The Foyle Foundation£7,500
The Clothworkers Foundation£7,000
Co-Operative Group£5,005
Henry Smith Charity£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to St Luke's Advice Service
£10,000 26/07/2023
Funding was provided so they can continue to assist those that are struggling with the cost-of-living and have fallen into fuel poverty.
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£7,500 10/07/2023
towards core costs over the next 12 months
National Lottery Community Fund - Growing the essential welfare benefit and debt advice service
£9,550 21/10/2022
This project will offer a benefit and advice service that will offer free practical help and guidance via 1:1 appointments (with telephone and email support also). It will involve volunteers to ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to St Luke's Advice Service
£10,000 21/07/2022
Funding was provided towards core costs, including their VOIP phone system, website costs and salary costs for the delivery of the initial advice and triage their clients receive.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 04/02/2022
Welfare benefit and debt support work
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to St Luke's Advice Service
£7,000 27/01/2022
purchase office furniture of building for a charity supporting people with disabilities in East Sussex
Co-Operative Group - Grant to St Luke's Advice Service
£5,005 23/10/2021
We'd like to protect people from the threat of bankruptcy, eviction and lift them out of poverty.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to St Lukes Advice Service
£5,000 09/06/2021
12
towards one year's salary of a Service Delivery Manager for a charity providing debt and welfare benefit advice service for disadvantaged communities in Brighton, East Sussex.
National Lottery Community Fund - Welfare Benefit Essential Service
£9,690 29/04/2021
The funding will be used by the group to continue to deliver its welfare benefit advice service. The project aims to improve people’s financial stability primarily for those living with ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to St Luke's Advice Service
£5,000 18/11/2020
11
Funding was provided towards core costs.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£8,934 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
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to St Luke's Advice Service
£5,000 26/05/2020
St Lukes Advice Service provide free, practical help and guidance to people in need in Brighton and Hove. Clients include those with mental health issues and disabilities. They provide one to one ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 01/05/2020
Main Grants award
National Lottery Community Fund - Benefit Tribunal Project
£9,954 24/07/2019
12
The aim of this project is to provide IAG service for people in need, hardship or distress dealing with debt, benefit and complex financial issues. The project will recruit a specially trained ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to St Luke's Advice Service
£5,000 05/07/2019
12
Funding was provided towards core costs.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to St Lukes Advice Service
£5,000 12/12/2018
12
towards one year's running costs of a money and welfare benefit advice service for disadvantaged people in East Sussex
National Lottery Community Fund - Weekly Universal Credit Drop In
£9,005 21/02/2018
12
The project will establish a weekly drop in advice and guidance service to provide people within the community the skills to manage their income and Universal Credit payments, especially those who ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to St Luke's Advice Service
£4,348 29/11/2017
We need money to go towards the running costs of our Money and Welfare benefit Advice Service, which is the main part of our work.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to St Lukes Advice Service
£10,000 08/12/2016
12
towards one year's running costs of a money and welfare benefits advice service in Brighton
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 03/12/2002, number: 1094894
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
  • 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
19 returns made; all on time
Main office

Brighthelm Centre
North Road
Brighton
BN1 1YD

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE THE PROVISION OF A CHRISTIAN ADVICE SERVICE FOR THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP, OR DISTRESS IN BRIGHTON AND HOVE AND NEARBY DISTRICTS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

BRIGHTON AND HOVE AND NEARBY DISTRICTS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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