Overall GiG Score: 12 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 9
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9

CAMDEN COMMUNITY LAW CENTRE 

High quality advice to Camden's most deprived residents through telephone and face to face work. We reach BME and refugee communities by having a number of advisers from those communities. Areas of advice offered are: Welfare Benefits, Employment, Debt, Housing, Asylum and Immigration - we include representation at Tribunals and Outreach sessions in libraries and Community Centre.
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:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 39 years

www.nwllc.org.uk

admin@nwllc.org.uk

02072846510

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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£453£356£97n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/22£360£324£35n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/03/21£572£379£193£0£511£51116.296
31/03/20*£516£407£109£0£318£2667.9106
31/03/19£484£479£4n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/18£462£506£-44£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£520£426£94£0£248£2286.460
31/03/16£453£381£72£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£462£384£78£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£392£347£44£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£452£627£-175£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£633£630£3£3£134£1342.6130
31/03/11£636£677£-42£3£131£1162.1130
31/03/10£655£738£-83£5£173£1732.8150
31/03/09*£716£726£-11£8£256£2464.1150
31/03/08*£637£621£16£6£266£2585150
31/03/07£655£641£13£21£250£2454.6140
31/03/06£590£579£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£554£562£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£622£636£-14£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 6 volunteers
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Camden,

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£302,686
City Bridge Trust£109,500
AB Charitable Trust£95,000
Tudor Trust£50,000
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£40,000
The Baring Foundation£29,246
Access to Justice Foundation£16,396
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Camden Community Law Centre
£98,000 23/11/2022
24
£98,000 over two further and final years (£48,953, £49,047) to meet the salary and on-costs of a Welfare Rights Representation caseworker.
Access to Justice Foundation - Community Justice Fund Wave Three
£12,196 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.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Camden Community Law Centre
£15,000 23/08/2022
An unrestricted grant of £15,000 (Year 3 of 3 years). Camden Community Law Centre delivers free independent legal advice to its local community, aiming to reach the most vulnerable and socially ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Camden Community Law Centre
£15,000 14/06/2021
An unrestricted grant of £15,000 (This grant is renewable - year 2 of up to 3 years). Camden Community Law Centre delivers free independent legal advice to its local community, aiming to reach the ....more
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£4,200 19/10/2020
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
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Camden Community Law Centre
£15,000 02/07/2020
An unrestricted grant of £15,000 (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). Camden Community Law Centre delivers free independent legal advice to its local community, aiming to reach the ....more
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Public Interest Law Centre
£29,246 23/06/2020
PILC proposes to strengthen its existing legal hub activities and grow new partnerships with BME/Migrant organisations in response to Covid-19.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£20,000 18/06/2020
3
Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Camden Community Law Centre
£11,500 09/04/2020
A one-off, unrestricted grant of £11,500, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisations current grant.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Core funding
£20,000 23/09/2019
12
Core funding to support operational costs of the Public Interest Law Centre based at Camden Community Law Centre.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Camden Community Law Centre
£50,000 08/08/2019
8
over eight months as restricted funding to support the core costs of the Public Interest Law Centre as it works to become established as a new entity which will continue to support public law cases ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to The Public Interest Law Centre (PILC) - C/O Camden Community Law Centre
£30,000 07/08/2019
A restricted grant of £30,000 towards the core costs of the Public Interest Law Centre. The Centre specialises in public law and actions against public authorities, including strategic litigation ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Advice Now in Camden
£302,686 04/07/2019
36
The project will use the funding to continue to offer specialist advice, support and representation to people living in Camden. They will offer casework, legal presentation at tribunals to those from ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Camden Community Law Centre
£20,000 25/04/2019
An unrestricted grant of £20,000. Camden Community Law Centre provides free legal advice for people living/working in Camden, in the areas of employment, housing, asylum & immigration. These ....more
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Public Interest Law Centre
£99,543 11/03/2019
The project seeks to defend, enforce and promote the housing rights of Domestic Violence survivors through free legal representation, capacity-strengthening of the voluntary sector and strategic ....more
Trust for London - Camden Community Law Centre
£120,000 20/02/2019
36
The funding is for specialist immigration advice to people living in the London Borough of Camden and surrounding areas. This funding is necessary to maintain access to non-asylum immigration advice ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Camden Community Law Centre
£136,700 14/11/2018
36
£136,700 over 3 years (£46,000, £45,100; £45,600) to meet the salary and on-costs of a full-time Welfare Rights Representation Caseworker.
National Lottery Community Fund - Advice Now in Camden!
£269,554 24/02/2016
36
This service aims to provide generalist and specialist advice, support and representation to people in the London Borough of Camden. The project will target low income individuals and families on ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 37-86
  • ANNIKA KUMAR Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Procurement Manager
  • SANDI MATHER Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Holistic Therapist
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 09/11/1984, number: 290441
  • Registered at Companies House on 10/10/1984, number: 01854266
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • 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
20 returns made; AR20: 4 days late, AR09: 10 days late, AR08: 11 days late,
Main office

12 Greenland Road
LONDON
NW1 0AY

Objectives

3.1 THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS ARE RESTRICTED SPECIFICALLY IN EACH CASE ONLY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:3.1.1 TO PREVENT AND RELIEVE POVERTY BY PROVIDING IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO A RANGE OF LEGAL SERVICES, CASE WORK AND REPRESENTATION FOR THE COMMUNITY; 3.1.2 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION OF PEOPLE AND TO EMPOWER THEM TO UNDERSTAND THEIR RIGHTS BY PROVIDING IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO PUBLIC LEGAL EDUCATION IN ADDITION TO CASE WORK; AND 3.1.3 TO ADVANCE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES (ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES) AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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