Overall GiG Score: 19 ?
Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 11
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11

ADVICE FOR RENTERS LIMITED 

PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, INFORMATION AND SERVICES.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • 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 and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
Established: 28 years
(34 years as a company)

www.adviceforrenters.org

info@advice4renters.org.uk

02076244327

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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£539£534£5£0£164£310.71325
31/03/22*£504£460£45£0£159£1263.31121
31/03/21£450£434£17n/an/an/an/an/a17
31/03/20£451£412£39n/an/an/an/an/a25
31/03/19£357£368£-11n/an/an/an/an/a26
31/03/18£338£326£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£451£432£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£288£273£14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15*£226£221£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£226£239£-14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13*£205£234£-29£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£238£249£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£214£331£-117£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£454£298£156£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£251£251£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£286£284£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£272£276£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£256£290£-34£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£276£252£24£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£213£202£11£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 53%
Liabilities/Income: 34%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 19%
Reserves/Spending: 0.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 1.1
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 13 employees
  • 25 volunteers
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,

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
Trust for London£200,620
National Lottery Community Fund£179,032
Access to Justice Foundation£102,500
City Bridge Trust£55,825
AB Charitable Trust£35,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£25,000
Greater London Authority£6,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Herefordshire Community Foundation - Laptops for Hereford staff
£168 29/08/2023
Grant to Advice for Renters
Trust for London - Advice 4 Renters Ltd
£7,500 29/09/2022
This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-02.02.2021-8963
Greater London Authority - Advice for Renters Ltd (on behalf of Fairer Housing)
£6,000 29/07/2022
This is a partnership Programme between City Bridge Trust, the National Lottery Community Fund and the GLA. Fairer Housing (FH) wants to bring together individuals living in unsatisfactory housing ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Welfare Benefits Advice
£10,000 28/01/2022
The funding will be used to recruit an additional Welfare Benefits Advisor for this tenants’ support group working in Brent. The project aims to provide welfare advice and support to meet ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Advice for Renters (previously called Brent Private Tenants' Rights Group)
£20,000 07/10/2021
An unrestricted grant of £20,000. Advice for Renters delivers specialist legal advice to low income, vulnerable private renters, works to use legal action strategically and lobby government for ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Mentoring & Befriending Service
£169,032 12/08/2021
The group is using funding to continue the Mentoring and Befriending Service which provides 1:1 practical and moral support to vulnerable private renters. The project aims to help people become more ....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 COVID89
Trust for London - Advice 4 Renters Ltd
£150,000 11/06/2021
36
The funding is for early intervention and out of court settlements, particularly where there are Covid-19 related rent arrears, testing new or under-used areas of law, including breaches of Energy ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Advice for Renters
£49,900 13/05/2021
£49,900 for two further and final years (£24,600; £25,300) to meet the salary of a Housing Advisor and a contribution to core costs.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Advice For Renters
£2,000 19/03/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
Trust for London - Advice 4 Renters Ltd
£33,120 02/09/2020
6
The funding is for two Welfare Benefits advisers, to cope with increasing number of tenants who require support with complex benefits cases including under/over-payments and preparation for Tribunal ....more
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£77,500 22/06/2020
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
Trust for London - Brent Private Tenants Rights Group
£10,000 29/05/2020
3
The funding is to provide financial advice and emergency support to isolated private tenants who are struggling to pay their rent as a result of COVID19 emergency. It will also contribute to the ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Brent Private Tenants' Rights Group
£5,925 09/04/2020
A one-off, unrestricted grant of £5,925, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisation’s current grant.
London Catalyst - Advice4Renters - 3
£3,600 06/02/2020
Senior Renters Group 2020
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Brent Private Tenants' Rights Group Ltd (t/a Advice4Renters)
£15,000 10/10/2019
An unrestricted grant of £15,000. Advice4Renters provides legal advice to private renters. Their services include, housing advice including health & safety of the property, welfare benefits and ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 10/07/2019
Sustainability & Development
National Lottery Community Fund - Advice South Kilburn (ASK)
£10,000 18/01/2019
12
The project will expand its delivery of support and advice services for people who are experiencing the effects of social disadvantage. The aim is to address financial issues that impact upon ....more
Trust for London - Brent Private Tenants Rights Group
£160,000 21/02/2018
36
The funding is towards work to encourage early intervention; pursue compensation for disrepair; test new areas of law not covered by legal aid, including Rent Repayment Orders; challenging redress ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Brent Private Tenants' Rights Group
£71,300 23/11/2017
36
£71,300 over three years (£23,600; £23,700; £24,000) to meet the salary of a Housing and Debt Advisor plus a contribution towards running costs.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Advice For Renters
£90,000 10/10/2017
36
over three years towards salaries and running costs of a project, run in partnership with Toynbee Hall, providing marginalised private sector renters in the London Borough of Brent with tailored ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Advice4Renters - Helping to understand Renters' Rights
£8,890 09/08/2017
12
This project will recruit and train volunteers through courses about renting rights and obligations.
Power to Change - Harlesden Letts
£9,527 01/03/2017
16
Grant to Harlesden Letts
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Brent Private Tenants Rights Group
£33,900 28/02/2014
This charity provides advice and support to low income and vulnerable tenants in private rented accommodation and campaigns against poor housing, working in an area of very high deprivation. It is ....more
Nationwide Foundation - Grant to Brent Private Tenants' Rights Group
£4,782 25/05/2011
Salary and other core costs providing dedicated support to older tenants (many increasingly elderly and frail) in Rent Act tenancies
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 9/10 persons

Age Range of Trustees:
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 31/01/1996, number: 1051979
  • Registered at Companies House on 26/10/1989, number: 02436887
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
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR22: 58 days late, AR15: 179 days late, AR13: 18 days late, AR07: 112 days late, AR05: 1 days late,
Main office

36-38 WILLESDEN LANE
LONDON
NW6 7ST

Objectives

FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AMONGST TENANTS IN THE WEST LONDON, IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, INFORMATION AND SERVICES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

WEST LONDON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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