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Finance Score: 7
Governance Score: -8
Support Score: 13
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • All male board: -3
  • Multiple returns filed late: -2
  • Overall weighted support: +13
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

HERE FOR GOOD

Free immigration services for vulnerable migrants living in the UK and their family members.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending since inception
  • There have been no income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • Why are there only 4 trustees?
  • Why is the Board completely male?
  • Returns have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended

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 Spending Surplus/
Deficit		 Volun-
teers
28/02/23£361£296£65n/a
28/02/22£250£241£9n/a
28/02/21*£252£248£4n/a
29/02/20*£89£74£15n/a
28/02/19*£15£7£9n/a
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 7 years

www.hereforgoodlaw.org

contact@hereforgoodlaw.com

07464758165

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
GiG Classification
  • General Community services
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • 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
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£368,000
Trust for London£152,000
AB Charitable Trust£65,000
Access to Justice Foundation£45,000
Allen Lane Foundation£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Draft legal report to the Review of Civil Legal Aid
£3,000 30/01/2024
1
Here for Good is a strategic legal charity that aims to plug the gaps in advice provision where there is no legal aid available, such as the EU Settlement Scheme and the Ukraine visa schemes. This grant will support Here for Good to undertake legal ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Here for Good
£30,000 25/01/2024
An unrestricted grant of £30,000 (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). Here for Good provides legal advice to EU citizens who need support to access their rights under the EU Settlement Scheme.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Strategically challenging an immigration system
£365,000 17/07/2023
Here for Good is a strategic legal charity that aims to plug the gaps in advice provision where there is no legal aid available, such as the EU Settlement Scheme and the Ukraine visa schemes. This grant will support Here for Good to gather case ....more
Trust for London - Here for Good
£152,000 01/02/2023
The funding is for the employment of a full-time caseworker - an accredited immigration lawyer with extensive experience - who will be based at the AIRE Centre carrying out legal policy work and providing free advice under the EU Settlement Scheme ....more
Allen Lane Foundation - Grant to Here for Good Law
£10,000 11/07/2022
£10,000 single grant towards the salary and running costs of a Volunteer Coordinator for this organisation offering legal advice to migrants in the UK.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Here for Good
£20,000 30/06/2022
An unrestricted grant of £20,000. Here for Good provides legal advice to vulnerable EEA nationals and family members across England.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Here for Good
£15,000 08/10/2020
An unrestricted grant of £15,000. Here for Good provides support and legal advice to EU citizens in relation to the EU Settlement Scheme.
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£45,000 05/08/2020
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
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Here for Good
£10,000 10/10/2019
An unrestricted grant of £10,000 . Here for Good provide free immigration advice for EEA citizens, in particularly relating to understanding the current immigration laws and the impact of Brexit.
Trust for London - Here for Good
£74,500 05/06/2019
24
The funding is for the employment of a full-time immigration caseworker, who will be a fully qualified lawyer with EU immigration experience. The caseworker will be seconded to South West London Law Centres (SWLLC) in Croydon. The caseworker will ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • GARY KEVIN SIMMONS Appointed: 2019
  • KIM DENISE HOOPER Appointed: 2018
  • PAUL DAVID DOSSETT Appointed: 2021
  • TAHMID RAHMAN CHOWDHURY Appointed: 2018
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 21/02/2018, number: 1177260
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
5 returns made; AR21: 1 days late, AR20: 91 days late, AR19: 31 days late,
Main office

15 CROSBY WALK
LONDON
E8 3DW

Objectives

1 To relieve the needs of migrants experiencing issues with their uk immigration status by providing such persons with free, high quality legal services which they could not otherwise obtain through lack of means or provision of legal aid; 2 The relief and assistance of people who are the victims of war, natural disaster or climate change, trouble or catastrophe, in particular by the supply of legal services and ancillary assistance to such persons seeking refuge in the uk; and 3 To advance such other charitable purposes as the directors at their absolute discretion may from time to time determine.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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