Overall GiG Score: 7 ?
Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 4
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +4

IRISH ELDERLY ADVICE NETWORK 

The Irish Elderly Advice Network, provides advice, support and information to elderly Irish people in order to combat, poverty, isolation and distress amongst the elderly Irish community. We do this by providing a comprehensive advice service covering all areas of concern to Irish pensioners. There are two outreach advice services, at Duming Hall, Forestgate, East London, held every Thursday 11-1
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity 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: 18 years

www.irishelders.org.uk

office@irishelders.org.uk

02074280471

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
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£344£312£32n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/22£261£264£-3n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/21£260£251£9n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/20£157£155£2n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/19£135£145£-10n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/18£151£153£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£115£182£-66£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£149£205£-56£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£267£153£114£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£126£139£-13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£124£113£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£109£109£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£105£100£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£100£104£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£128£124£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£103£106£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 20 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,

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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Irish Elders Theatre - wellbeing project
£10,000 29/04/2022
The funding will be used to restart Irish Elders Theatre after Covid which will give older Irish people the chance to participate in drama workshops and perform at community venues. The project aims ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Irish Elders Corona Recovery Project
£10,000 23/10/2020
6
The funding will be used to deliver a telephone befriending service provide regular newsletters and run socially distanced IT and social activities for older people from Irish heritage. The project ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Irish Elderly Advice Network
£7,500 09/04/2020
A one-off, unrestricted grant of £7,500, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisation’s current grant
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Irish Elderly Advice Network
£150,000 25/07/2019
£150,000 over 5 years (£30,000 X 5) to contribute to the salary cost of the Head of Culture and associated office costs.
National Lottery Community Fund - Irish Elders Core Project
£10,000 05/04/2019
12
The project will provide creative arts activities for older people. The aim is to use Irish culture to build relationships in the community.
National Lottery Community Fund - Irish Elders Culture and Wellbeing project
£10,000 28/02/2018
12
This project will run range of art group activities for older people from the Irish community living with complex needs. This will reduce loneliness and isolation and offer wellbeing support.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 70-84
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 07/08/2006, number: 1115711
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/12/2005, number: 05642515
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
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
17 returns made; all on time
Main office

IRISH ELDERLY ADVICE NETWORK
52 CAMDEN SQUARE
LONDON
NW1 9XB

Objectives

To promote any charitable purpose, in particular but not exclusively, for the benefit of older (aged 55 and above) persons who identify themselves as Irish resident in the UK by, but not limited to:Relieving their poverty by the provision of advice and information about health, welfare, housing, and social benefits.The advancement of education, including art, music and Irish culture, and the protection of health and the relief of sickness and distress, including the promotion of social, recreation and leisure activities in the interests of social welfare and in order to address isolation and improve their quality of life.

Defined Area of Benefit:

IRISH RESIDENT IN THE UK

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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