Overall GiG Score: 5 ?
Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 9
  • Accounts overdue -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Very static board: -5
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9

LASA CHARITY UK LIMITED 

Lasa Charity UK Ltd - operating as rightsnet - provides strategic and innovative services to support and promote independent advice for all. We do this in specific key areas: Social Welfare Law support to front line advisers and those seeking advice throughout the UK. Advocating and promoting the use of technology through a2jtech. Policy development support to the advice and legal sector.
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 and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board composition appears to be very 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
  • Latest accounts are overdue for filing
Established: 35 years
(40 years as a company)

www.rightsnet.org.uk

contact@rightsnet.org.uk

02073772748

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
31/03/22£429£385£44n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/21£444£386£58n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/20£406£481£-75n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/19£429£460£-32n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/18£518£499£18£24£225£2255.480
31/03/17£492£491£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£582£603£-21£15£205£2054.1110
31/03/15£692£659£34£13£227£2234.1100
31/03/14£672£576£97£13£193£1934100
31/03/13£788£1,163£-375£18£96£961200
31/03/12£997£1,139£-142£22£472£1431.5200
31/03/11£1,655£1,196£460£17£613£1261.3210
31/03/10£1,043£1,065£-22£15£154£1171.3210
31/03/09£1,270£1,343£-73£20£176£1171240
31/03/08£1,699£1,949£-249£21£248£2481.5300
31/03/07£2,050£1,881£169£13£498£1921.2310
31/03/06£2,337£2,121£216£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£1,235£1,480£-245£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£1,531£1,590£-59£0£0£0n/a00

Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 44%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
What it does
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

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
City Bridge Trust£179,900
The Legal Education Foundation£150,000
Trust for London£85,300
Greater London Authority£38,644
The Baring Foundation£30,000
Esmee Fairbairn£15,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Greater London Authority - Rightsnet
£38,644 01/10/2022
To create a new guided pathway to support Londoners through the existing Advicelocal web service.
Trust for London - LASA Charity UK Ltd
£5,300 29/09/2022
This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-06.10.2020-8783
City Bridge Trust - Grant to LASA
£164,900 29/11/2021
60
Core funding over five years of £164,900 (£48,100; £42,100, £36,100; £26,500; £12,100) to increase engagement with rightsnet, providing services to address challenges faced by disadvantaged ....more
Trust for London - LASA Charity UK Ltd
£80,000 03/03/2021
The funding is for core staff costs to enable the organisation to continue and expand vital support services to the community and advice sectors through rightsnet, advicelocal and webtools.
The Legal Education Foundation - Rightsnet support
£150,000 11/11/2020
Sustaining and expanding the RightsNet website to support advice workers.
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Lasa Charity UK
£30,000 23/06/2020
To support the ongoing work of rightsnet and advicelocal in responding to the Covid-19 pandemic and it's impact on advice organisations.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to LASA
£15,000 11/06/2020
£15,000 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, in order to carry on providing support to Londoners.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Lasa
£15,000 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 fast response grant
Trust for London - LASA Charity UK Ltd
£60,000 06/06/2018
36
The funding is to reach new beneficiaries and disadvantaged communities across London, developing advisers’ skills, learning and confidence, increasing capacity and effectiveness, improving public ....more
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Lasa Charity UK
£30,000 16/05/2017
The development of a free fact-checking web tool designed to address commonly held misconceptions in relation to welfare to work conditionality.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Lasa
£150,000 23/11/2016
36
Towards the costs of extending Advicelocal, a web resource providing information to assist people in addressing legal problems in areas of social welfare, across the United Kingdom.
London Catalyst - Lasa - 1
£3,000 04/02/2015
Support for marketing campaign for Advicelocal website to widen knowledge of it
National Lottery Community Fund - Rightsnet Local
£10,000 14/03/2013
12
This is a project by a charity in Tower Hamlets. The group will use the funding to design and develop a website with a suite of online resources tailored to meet local needs. This will provide online ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Lasa
£70,000 01/12/2011
Towards the salary costs involved in upgrading online support for advice agencies.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Lasa
£50,000 23/10/2008
24
Towards Core costs Towards the salary of a marketing and business development manager.
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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: 43-74
  • ANDREW FLETT Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Assistant Director At Queen Mary University
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 23/11/1988, number: 800140
  • Registered at Companies House on 22/02/1984, number: 01794098
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
Filing Record
19 returns made; all on time
Main office

rightsnet
Lasa Charity UK Limited
4th Floor
18, St Cross Street
London
EC1N 8UN

Objectives

TO RELIEVE POVERTY BY PROMOTING THE PROVISION OF HIGH QUALITY INDEPENDENT ADVICE FOR ALL AND IN PARTICULAR:(A) TO PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT, IMPROVEMENT AND CO-ORDINATION OF LEGAL AND ADVICE SERVICES AND TO ENCOURAGE CO-OPERATION BETWEEN AGENCIES PROVIDING SUCH SERVICES;(B) TO PROMOTE AND ASSIST IN THE INTRODUCTION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN CHARITABLE AGENCIES;(C) TO CARRY OUT, COMMISSION AND PUBLISH STUDIES AND RESEARCH INTO THE PROVISION OF LEGAL ADVICE AND VOLUNTARY SERVICES AND TO DEVELOP POLICY RESPONSES TO THIS RESEARCH.

Defined Area of Benefit:

GREATER LONDON AREA

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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