Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 8
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

BRIXTON ADVICE CENTRE

The principal objectives of Brixton Advice Centre are to promote access to justice by providing good quality advice and assistance. This includes legal advice and representation to people who would otherwise be unable to afford legal services. The Centre also supports people maximise income and to better manage their lives.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 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 and dynamic in terms of composition

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
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/24£385£339£46n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/23£332£332£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£212£287£-75n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£349£304£45n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20?£257£258£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£317£378£-61n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£466£509£-43n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£500£497£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£552£524£28£4£563£1343.1110
31/03/14*£380£353£27n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£404£353£51n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12*£352£354£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11*£327£322£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£262£287£-25n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£227£251£-23n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£279£263£16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07£257£246£12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06*£235£261£-26n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05*£225£238£-13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04*£432£228£204n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 40 years

www.brixtonadvice.org.uk

info@brixtonadvice.org.uk

0207 733 7554

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • General Community services
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • 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
Trust for London£151,070
City Bridge Trust£118,300
DCMS£81,225
Access to Justice Foundation£63,194
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Trust for London - Brixton Advice Centre
£8,200 29/09/2022
This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-01.06.2021-9128
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Brixton Advice Centre
£105,800 17/12/2021
£105,800 for a further two and final years (£52,800, £53,000) for two part-time Advisers (2 x 0.5 FTE) and associated project costs.
Trust for London - Brixton Advice Centre
£122,000 06/10/2021
36
The funding is for a Housing Solicitor/Adviser and management and development support, to provide predominantly online and digital services across Lambeth and South London. The advice will be delivered through our Online Legal Clinic, a recently ....more
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£25,000 09/08/2021
A flexible grant as part of wave 2 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID35
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£38,194 28/09/2020
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
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£81,225 22/09/2020
"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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
Trust for London - Brixton Advice Centre
£20,870 04/09/2020
6
The funding is for continued development of BAC Online Legal Clinic, that was set up and funded initially for three months under the London Community Response Wave 2.. This funding is to cover the costs of making our premises COVID19 safe to ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Brixton Advice Centre
£12,500 09/04/2020
A one-off, unrestricted grant of £12,500, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisation’s current grant’
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Brixton Advice Centre
£146,000 06/07/2018
36
£146,000 over three years (£48,000, £50,000, £48,000) for the part-time salary of an Advisor and associated project costs.
National Lottery Community Fund - Food Poverty Project
£9,950 06/07/2018
12
The funding will be used to provide and promote the range of support available to the local community who are experiencing poverty. The project aims to improve awareness of the support available, including financial resilience workshops.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 29-77
  • CALLUM CHRISTIE LYNCH Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Advice And Information Officer, Liberty
  • GARETH ROSS JOHN BEATON Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Barrister
  • LUCAS BERTHOLDI-SAAD Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Area Organiser, Unison Greater London Region
  • NIGEL DAVID WACHMAN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Accountant (Ret'D)
  • SARAH NICHOLA CATTO (Chair) Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Unemployed
  • VEENA SRIRANGAM Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Barrister
  • WILLIAM FREDERICK TAGGART, Occupation: Charity Project Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 09/05/1985, number: 291484
  • Registered at Companies House on 08/03/1985, number: 01893924
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Financial Conduct Authority
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
  • 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; AR14: 2 days late, AR12: 2 days late, AR11: 39 days late, AR06: 203 days late, AR05: 1 days late, AR04: 102 days late,
Main office

BRIXTON ADVICE CENTRE
165-167 RAILTON ROAD
LONDON
SE24 0LU

Objectives

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND OF ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY OF GREATER LONDON.

Defined Area of Benefit:

GREATER LONDON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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