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Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 9
  • Volatile income: -3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

BARKING AND DAGENHAM CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU 

- free, confidential, independent and impartial advice,information and counsel for members of the public- social policy - education and training
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:

  • Income has been volatile recently
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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£522£527£-5£0£187£13331414
31/03/22£713£712£1£0£192£1322.21515
31/03/21£734£720£14£0£191£1252.11931
31/03/20£821£822£-1£0£177£1772.62344
31/03/19*£709£724£-15£0£178£1782.92671
31/03/18£569£581£-12£0£193£1934180
31/03/17£601£555£46£0£205£2054.4180
31/03/16£668£629£39£0£121£2124.1180
31/03/15*£686£707£-21£4£82£611180
31/03/14*£676£768£-92£16£103£741.2130
31/03/13*£580£516£64£8£195£1453.4110
31/03/12*£472£504£-32£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11*£614£570£43£12£163£1292.7140
31/03/10£479£444£35£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£382£390£-8£0£0£0n/a00
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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: 33%
Liabilities/Income: 21%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 71%
Reserves/Spending: 3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 2.3
Asset Split ?
Established: 16 years
(39 years as a company)

www.bdcab.org.uk

bdcab.office@bdcab.org.uk

020 8594 6715

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Advice organisations
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Barking And Dagenham, Havering, Newham, Redbridge, Waltham Forest,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 14 employees
  • 14 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
The Legal Education Foundation£85,000
Access to Justice Foundation£85,000
London Legal Support Trust£10,000
Trust for London£9,900
National Lottery Community Fund£9,598
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
The Legal Education Foundation - JFF Host 2022
£85,000 15/06/2022
A grant to Citizens Advice Barking & Dagenham to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 9. Co-funded by Trust for London.
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
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£40,000 09/08/2021
A flexible grant as part of wave 2 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID66
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Emergency Bridging Grant
£10,000 09/03/2021
A flexible grant as part of the Emergency Bridging Fund of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID-19.
National Lottery Community Fund - Improving Local Digital Advice
£9,598 20/11/2020
6
The funding will be used to make a range of improvements to their digital online service to include a chat function online referral service and local resource information. The project aims to adapt ....more
Trust for London - Barking and Dagenham Citizens Advice Bureau
£9,900 02/09/2020
6
The funding is for the salary of a part-time employment advice worker to deal with additional demands for employment advice and train frontline advice providers on employment issues. The increase ....more
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£35,000 16/07/2020
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
National Lottery Community Fund - Advice For Life Barking and Dagenham
£327,484 25/04/2013
36
This project will provide a more joined up approach to advice services for the residents of Barking and Dagenham, building upon the existing BIG funded Advice Plus project and increasing the ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 36-75
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/03/2008, number: 1123253
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/06/1984, number: 01821310
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
15 returns made; AR19: 35 days late, AR15: 61 days late, AR14: 186 days late, AR13: 2 days late, AR12: 146 days late, AR11: 130 days late,
Main office

339 HEATHWAY
DAGENHAM
ESSEX
RM9 5AF

Objectives

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS IN PARTICULAR, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN LONDON BOROUGH OF BARKING AND DAGENHAM AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

BARKING AND DAGENHAM AND NEIGHBOURING BOROUGHS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
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