Overall GiG Score: 11 ?
Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: -4
Support Score: 13
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Static board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +13

HARINGEY LAW CENTRE 

Haringey Law Centre provides specialist legal services in all social welfare law areas.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • 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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
  • There are only 4 trustees
  • The Board composition appears to be rather static

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: 46 years

www.haringeylawcentre.org.uk

info@haringeylawcentre.org.uk

07719658200

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£491£517£-26n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/22£339£339£1n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/03/21£361£320£41n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/20£252£251£1n/an/an/an/an/a7
31/03/19£280£253£27n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/18£152£191£-39£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£140£142£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£304£263£41£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£137£129£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£137£132£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13*£131£124£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12*£247£265£-18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£252£268£-16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£245£245£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£266£226£40£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08*£198£209£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£230£225£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£211£219£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£214£213£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£175£173£2£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 6 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Enfield, Haringey,

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
National Lottery Community Fund£485,902
City Bridge Trust£309,035
Trust for London£264,550
AB Charitable Trust£15,000
Access to Justice Foundation£14,672
DCMS£9,963
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - CSR3 Enfield Law Centre
£29,999 30/08/2023
Funding will be used to support 22 local equity-led organisations through training networking greater resilience and capacity building. The project aims to increase understanding of the legal system ....more
Trust for London - Haringey Law Centre
£112,000 22/06/2023
The funding is for a salaried Senior Caseworker who is a senior solicitor to undertake litigation at the appeal tribunals for Welfare Benefits matters, Legal Supervision and a campaigner/researcher ....more
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.
Trust for London - Haringey Law Centre
£2,550 29/09/2022
This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-04.02.2020-8469
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Haringey Law Centre
£292,785 26/09/2022
36
£292,785 over three years (£88,885, £97,325, £106,575) towards the staffing and running costs of the Haringey Law Centre Emergency Legal Action Team. This includes the funding of five part-time ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Haringey Law Centre
£15,000 30/06/2022
An unrestricted grant of £15,000. Haringey Law Centre provides legal advice, casework and representation in social welfare, benefits, housing, debt and employment.
National Lottery Community Fund - Life Beyond COVID-19 Pandemic - for Enfieldians
£359,612 25/02/2022
The project is using funding to support the most disadvantaged vulnerable and hard to reach groups in Enfield with free legal representation and support on complex legal matters. The specialist legal ....more
Indigo Trust - Unrestricted funding to support the Law Centre's work
£2,000 25/01/2022
Unrestricted funding to support the Law Centre's work
National Lottery Community Fund - The Haringey Law Centre A Team Project Continued
£48,126 01/03/2021
5
The project is using funding to continue the A-Team Project which provides essential legal work better faster and for many more people in Haringey by establishing a free fast-track expert legal ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,963 29/09/2020
"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
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Haringey Law Centre
£16,250 17/06/2020
£16,250 towards three months of costs as outlined in your application, excluding the costs of a new staff post.
Trust for London - Haringey Law Centre
£150,000 10/06/2020
36
The funding is for continuation and expansion of welfare benefits advice, and for researcher/campaigner to support advice delivery and undertake advocacy with Haringey Council one day a week .
National Lottery Community Fund - The Haringey Law Centre A Team
£48,165 26/05/2020
6
The funding will be used to establish a new free fast-track expert legal service that specialises in urgent action to deal with legal cases focusing on housing and homelessness; welfare benefits and ....more
Trust for London - Haringey Law Centre
£89,000 01/03/2018
24
The funding is to appoint a part-time Senior Solicitor and part-time Policy & Development Worker to provide specialist casework/tribunal advice/support to 160 clients yearly on social welfare, ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Widening access to expert legal support in LB Haringey
£10,000 14/06/2017
12
This project will use funding to provide free independent legal advice to vulnerable people. This will support people in times of crisis and give them an understanding of their rights and ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Haringey Law Centre
£15,000 24/01/2017
£15,000 towards core costs. Haringey Law Centre works to provide free legal advice & representation on housing, asylum & immigration and welfare benefits to those living and working in ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 58-83
  • RUTH HAYLES Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Health & Safety / Administrator
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/01/1978, number: 274760
  • Registered at Companies House on 06/10/1977, number: 01332867
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
  • 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
20 returns made; AR13: 2 days late, AR12: 6 days late, AR09: 14 days late, AR08: 26 days late, AR07: 296 days late,
Main office

Unit A
7 Holcombe Road
LONDON
N17 9AA

Objectives

TO PROVIDE BY EMPLOYING SOLICITORS AND OTHER STAFF FREE LEGAL ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE TO POOR PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HARINGEY AND NEIGHBOURING BOROUGHS. FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF THE MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LONDON BOROUGH OF HARINGEY AND NEIGBOURING BOROUGHS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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