Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 13
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +13
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

MERTON CENTRE FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING 

Home visiting advice and advocacy service Disability Hate Crime Prevention ServiceDebates and eventsCraftivism and Chat GroupResponding to consultations and reviews, and representing the voice of Merton's disabled people.
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 and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly female

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: 11 years
(12 years as a company)

www.mertoncil.org.uk

info@mertoncil.org.uk

02033973119

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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£335£327£7n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/03/22£344£362£-18n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/03/21£373£353£20n/an/an/an/an/a7
31/03/20£364£349£15n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/19£403£391£12n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/18£333£350£-17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£315£290£25£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£288£220£68£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£93£96£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£65£53£12£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Merton,
Who it helps
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 3 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
Henry Smith Charity£297,700
City Bridge Trust£295,500
Trust for London£210,679
Three Guineas Trust£125,904
The London Community Foundation£16,876
DCMS£10,000
CAF£4,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Three Guineas Trust - Employ an advocate to navigate barriers to accessing goods and services
£125,904 27/03/2024
Employ an advocate to support disabled people to navigate barriers to accessing goods and services to promote inclusion and independence.
Trust for London - Merton Centre for Independent Living
£70,864 20/07/2023
This funding is to support work improving local social care policies and practices to increase independence and inclusion for local Disabled people. This funding will also support member led policy ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Merton Centre for Independent Living
£1,743 22/10/2022
We wish to support deaf and disabled people to increase their connections and reduce isolation and loneliness as well as become more confident around speaking up and challenging discrimination.
Trust for London - Merton Centre for Independent Living
£9,815 29/09/2022
This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-SVRR-2021-9024
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Merton Centre for Independent Living
£117,700 07/04/2022
36
towards three years' salary of a Case Worker at a project proving a range of support for disabled people, impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in Mitcham, London Borough of Merton in South London.
Trust for London - Merton Centre for Independent Living
£130,000 13/10/2021
24
The funding is for the continuation of our Caseworker Trainee programme supporting Deaf and Disabled people in Merton, who have become increasingly marginalised through the pandemic. So far, the ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Merton Centre for Independent Living
£180,000 09/06/2021
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of an organisation providing a range of support for disabled people in the London Borough of Merton.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Merton Centre for Independent Living
£48,200 22/03/2021
towards the salaries, outreach, service development and external support costs outlined in your application
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Merton Centre for Independent Living
£247,300 08/03/2021
£247,300 over 5 years (£47,500; £48,500; £49,500; £50,400; £51,400) towards the salary of a full-time Caseworker (35hpw), Office Manager (1hpw) and Service Manager (4hpw) and other associated ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Merton Centre for Independent Living
£5,000 18/12/2020
5
This funding is for our Craftivism & Chat project, social policy work and to provide organisational support to increase capacity and resilience. This work will promote independence and inclusion ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 21/08/2020
"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
CAF - Grant to Merton Centre for Independent Living
£4,000 14/07/2020
3
Grant to Merton Centre for Independent Living to support the organisation through COVID19
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Merton Centre for Independent Living
£11,876 06/05/2020
developing a response to the increased levels of Hate Crime in our community as a consequence of isolation and vulnerability as well as providing befriending and mental health support to our service ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Merton Centre for Independent Living
£90,000 07/12/2017
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of a project providing a range of support to disabled people in the London Borough of Merton
National Lottery Community Fund - By disabled people, for disabled people
£492,934 29/11/2017
35
The project aims to provide a range of interlinked services to tackle issues such as poverty, benefits, community care and housing for disabled people - helping them live independent lives. This has ....more
Trust for London - Merton Centre for Independent Living
£140,000 04/10/2017
36
The Funding is to support DDPO Hate Crime Partnership to: Increase specialist support for Disabled survivors of violence/hate crime through the development of skilled Hate Crime Advocates Enhance ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Passport to Independence
£487,245 23/01/2015
35
Not Available
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Merton Centre for Independent Living
£90,000 04/12/2014
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing a range of support to disabled people in the London Borough of Merton
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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

Age Range of Trustees: 39-72
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 11/07/2013, number: 1152825
  • Registered at Companies House on 24/05/2011, number: 07645926
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
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
10 returns made; all on time
Main office

Vestry Hall
336 London Road
Mitcham
CR4 3UD

Objectives

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS TO DISABLED PERSONS IN MERTON AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS BY PROVIDING SUPPORT AND SERVICES TO ENABLE THEM TO LIVE AS FULL AND EQUAL CITIZENS IN ALL ASPECTS OF LIFE.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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