Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 12

Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +12

Overall GiG Score: 18

ACCESS YOUR RIGHT TO CARE

Delivering free legal support in England so we all get the social care we have a right to. Providing access to a network of solicitors and barristers. Filling the gap left by legal aid to ensure access to justice.Working with communities and public bodies to uphold the rule of law. Shaping a future where social care is adequately funded.

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Positives:

The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

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	£1,669	£1,523	£146	£185	£1,304	£711	5.6	32	150
31/03/22	£1,680	£1,161	£518	£136	£1,158	£766	7.9	26	150
31/03/21	£1,377	£738	£639	£88	£639	£407	6.6	14	150

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 11.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 12.1%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 12%
Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
Liabilities/Assets: 17%
Liabilities/Income: 16%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 55%
Reserves/Spending: 5.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 3.8

Asset Split ?

Established: 4 years

accesscharity.org.uk

Kari.gerstheimer@accesscharity.org.uk

07899090360

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Disability
Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity

GiG Classification

Social & legal advocacy

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

32 employees
150 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

Esmee Fairbairn	£320,000
The Legal Education Foundation	£238,600
Access to Justice Foundation	£114,672
Pears Foundation	£100,000
Comic Relief	£70,000
Dulverton Trust	£65,000
Garfield Weston Foundation	£30,000
The Baring Foundation	£30,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Dulverton Trust - Core Funding
£35,000	08/02/2023	Core Funding
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Access Social Care
£20,000	06/02/2023	Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Access to Justice Foundation - Community Justice Fund Wave Three
£14,672	22/11/2022	Wave three of the Community Justice Fund aims to support organisations delivering social welfare advice services to people most impacted by the cost-of-living crisis.
The Legal Education Foundation - Creating change – community care and legal aid
£221,000	15/06/2022	Establishing a social care legal sector community of practice to support policy and influencing work in relation to sustaining community care legal aid.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000	18/02/2022	Place-Based Hubs
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Access Social Care
£20,000	20/01/2022	An unrestricted grant of £20,000. Access Social Care provides legal advice and information to people with social care needs and works with communities to increase their knowledge of social care ....more An unrestricted grant of £20,000. Access Social Care provides legal advice and information to people with social care needs and works with communities to increase their knowledge of social care rights and the use of law to ensure them.
Dulverton Trust - Core costs
£30,000	28/10/2021	Core costs
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Access Social Care
£300,000	07/07/2021 36	Towards unrestricted core costs to provide free legal advice for people with social care needs, helping them achieve a better quality of life.
The Legal Education Foundation - Scoping the barriers and solutions to sustaining Community Care Law
£17,600	01/07/2021	Leading a scoping exercise to understand the challenges to career pathways in community care law and recommend next steps.
Comic Relief - Legal Information Chatbot
£70,000	28/04/2021	Access Social Care provides free legal support to disabled people with social care needs. We support helplines and community organisations to give more expert advice. Everyday millions of older ....more Access Social Care provides free legal support to disabled people with social care needs. We support helplines and community organisations to give more expert advice. Everyday millions of older and disabled people go without the care they have a right to. Demand for advice is growing. But specialist advice funded through legal aid is reducing. Helplines and community organisations are overwhelmed and under-resourced, advisors can lack specialist expertise. Charity websites are hard to navigate. There is no obvious place for people to turn. We realised that disabled people, their families and supporters need clear, accurate, timely and accessible advice, available 24/7. Advice needs to be in small chunks and in a reassuring tone. Users with urgent and complex queries must be filtered through to an expert quickly. Our digital solution is a legal information chatbot. Developed on an open-source platform, white-labelled, co-designed and developed with key stakeholders, it can be cheaply hosted on charity websites. It will be the go-to online portal for social care advice. Digital inclusion is central to our solution. Disabled, older and people from BAME communities are partners in design, development, and testing, helping us learn and improve. Research tells us we need us to develop the next stage of the user journey. Through this fund we will auto-fill template letters for printing and sending to public bodies; generate automated emails to remind people to get back in touch if their problem persists; and develop and improve the handoff to our legal team and local agencies.
The EQ Foundation - Grant to Access Social Care
£300	15/02/2021	Via The Funding Network
Pears Foundation - Grant to Access Social Care
£100,000	12/02/2021	Core Funding
The Funding Network - Legal Network
£12,067	26/01/2021	We are responding to a pandemic related surge in demand. We are setting up regional hubs to reach into communities experiencing multiple barriers to accessing social care and accessing justice.
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£100,000	13/10/2020	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
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Access Social Care
£30,000	23/06/2020	To grow a regional hub model and develop our chatbot, meeting community needs and ensuring all people access the care they have a right to.
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Access Social Care
£100,000	11/03/2019	Strategic legal manager to lead development of use of data and strategic legal tactics to hold public bodies to account and bring about systems change

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How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

JANINE LESLEY TREGELLES Appointed: 2019

KEVIN FRANCIS MCGUIRK Appointed: 2021

LINDA ROSE REDFORD Appointed: 2021

ROBBIE MATTHEW CONNOR TURNER Appointed: 2022

CHRISTOPHER GEORGE HALE Appointed: 2019, Other trusteeship: STRIVE,

JOYCE GRACE SARPONG Appointed: 2022, Other trusteeships: KING'S COLLEGE SCHOOL, AFRICAN REVIVAL,

RHODA IRANLOYE Appointed: 2022, Other trusteeships: VISION SHAPERS INTERNATIONAL, DIMENSIONS CYMRU LIMITED,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 03/12/2019, number: 1186714

Gift Aid

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
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

3 returns made; all on time

Main office

Access Your Right To Care
86-90 Paul Street
LONDON
EC2A 4NE

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, THROUGHOUT THE UNITED KINGDOM, BY:A) PROVIDING LEGAL AND OTHER ADVISORY REPRESENTATION AND INFORMATION SERVICES TO PEOPLE WHO COULD NOT OTHERWISE OBTAIN THEM THROUGH LACK OF MEANS OR BECAUSE OF ANOTHER VULNERABILITY (INCLUDING COMMUNICATION NEEDS).B) PROVIDING LEGAL EDUCATION TO THOSE WORKING IN THE SOCIAL CARE SECTOR AND THOSE IN RECEIPT OF SOCIAL CARE SO THEY ARE BETTER EQUIPPED TO IDENTIFY AND ADDRESS LEGAL ISSUES SHOULD THEY ARISE.C) RAISING AWARENESS ON TRENDS OF ONGOING UNLAWFUL BEHAVIOUR WHICH IS IDENTIFIED THROUGH ACCESS YOUR RIGHT TO CARE'S LEGAL WORK.

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