Overall GiG Score: 21 ?
Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 14
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Volatile income
  • spending growth: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +14

CENTRAL ENGLAND LAW CENTRE LIMITED 

We offer specialist advice, representation and advocacy, and our aim is to use the law to seek change, so that those facing poverty or disadvantage, discrimination or exclusion are better able to take a full and active part in society.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • 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 and a Community Foundation
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly male

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile recently but spending has been maintained
Established: 23 years

www.centralenglandlc.org.uk

enquiries@centralenglandlc.org.uk

02476223053

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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£2,730£3,031£-301£0£2,270£2,0558.169150
31/03/22£3,574£3,469£105£0£2,059£1,5745.4684
31/03/21£3,757£3,469£287£0£1,579£1,0773.767171
31/03/20£2,779£2,460£319£0£1,170£9844.86380
31/03/19£2,583£2,559£24£0£797£7013.36480
31/03/18£2,240£2,285£-45£0£576£5142.7600
31/03/17£2,134£1,910£224£0£536£4833530
31/03/16*£1,777£1,610£168£0£437£3562.7470
31/03/15*£1,609£1,432£177£8£205£980.8390
31/03/14£1,285£1,274£11£7£-186£-191-1.8320
31/03/13*£1,285£1,274£11£7£-186£-191-1.8320
31/03/12*£1,153£1,230£-78£6£1£-7-0.1310
31/03/11*£1,341£1,255£86£5£182£1701.6300
31/03/10£1,420£1,326£95£5£-323£-347-3.1290
31/03/09£1,283£1,242£41£8£-50£-59-0.6270
31/03/08£1,455£1,592£-137£19£-205£-207-1.6340
31/03/07*£1,145£1,149£-5£21£-21£-34-0.4280
31/03/06£889£885£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£795£826£-32£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£692£678£15£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 3%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 26%
Liabilities/Income: 30%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 91%
Reserves/Spending: 8.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 9 months
Quick Ratio: 1.3
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 69 employees
  • 150 volunteers
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Birmingham City, Coventry City,

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
Esmee Fairbairn£590,000
Access to Justice Foundation£496,792
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£490,500
The Legal Education Foundation£381,182
Trust for London£302,220
AB Charitable Trust£130,000
Unbound Philanthropy£100,000
Barrow Cadbury Trust£75,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Central England Law Centre Limited
£50,000 27/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Rights in the Community
£18,000 18/01/2023
Central England Law Centre (CELC) provides free legal advice and representation in the areas of community care, discrimination, employment, family, housing, immigration and asylum, and more. This ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Rights in the Community
£240,000 09/05/2022
Central England Law Centre (CELC) provides free legal advice and representation in the areas of community care, discrimination, employment, family, housing, immigration and asylum, and more. This ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Central England Law Centre
£40,000 26/04/2022
36
A restricted grant of £40,000 per year for three years towards Kids in Need of Defense UK (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). KIND UK is a partnership project delivering a pro bono ....more
Trust for London - Central England Law Centre
£152,220 05/04/2022
The funding is for KINDUK - a collaboration between not-for-profits and law firms, who in turn represent in children's immigration cases. KINDUK is also promoting Implementation of our child-rights ....more
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Kids in Need of Defence UK 2022-2025
£75,000 29/01/2022
To continue the development of a pro-bono network of lawyers to resolve the immigration status of migrant and UK-born children in Birmingham, and to support policy influencing work in this area.
The Legal Education Foundation - Rights in the community
£300,000 10/11/2021
Core funding to embed a rights-based approach within wider social action and social justice organisations in the Midlands, using this work to influence wider system change.
Unbound Philanthropy - Grant to Central England Law Centre Limited
£100,000 03/11/2021
For general operating support to an organization providing free specialist legal advice to those most in need and using legal processes to fight social exclusion
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£60,000 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 COVID81
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Central England Law Centre Limited
£500,000 07/07/2021
60
Towards unrestricted core costs to support the activation of rights in the community, preventing problems that reinforce unfairness and inequality
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Central England Law Centre
£30,000 06/07/2021
A restricted grant of £30,000 towards Kids in Need of Defense UK (This grant is renewable - year 3 of 3 years). A pro-bono programme to help 1000s of undocumented children achieve settled status. ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Covid-19 Emergency Funding: Refugee support and reunion
£32,500 04/11/2020
6
Central England Law Centre provides free legal advice and representation in the areas of community care, discrimination, employment, family, housing, immigration and asylum, money and debt, public ....more
Access to Justice Foundation - Legal Support for Litigants in Person Grant
£217,143 24/09/2020
LSLIP is a two-year project funded by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). It aims to enhance services that support the earliest possible interventions for litigants in person reducing the risk of their ....more
The Baring Foundation - Grant to CENTRAL ENGLAND LAW CENTRE
£40,000 14/09/2020
To understand the impacts on legal rights of Care Act 2014 easements (in the Coronavirus Act) to influence the debate about the future of social care.
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£219,649 19/08/2020
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 Central England Law Centre
£30,000 07/07/2020
A restricted grant of £30,000 towards Kids in Need of Defense UK (This grant is renewable - year 2 of up to 3 years). A pro-bono programme to help 1000s of undocumented children achieve settled ....more
Comic Relief - Covid-19 Recovery Funding
£40,000 23/06/2020
6
COVID19 Recovery funding
The Baring Foundation - Grant to CENTRAL ENGLAND LAW CENTRE
£30,000 23/06/2020
To fund the staff costs associated with running a helpline and issuing a rights information pack and other materials for partner organisations.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£32,751 20/05/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Central England Law Centre
£40,000 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£20,000 09/04/2020
3
Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
The Legal Education Foundation - JFF Host 2020
£81,182 13/03/2020
A grant to Central England Law Centre Ltd to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 7.
Pears Foundation - Grant to Central England Law Centre Limited
£25,000 07/11/2019
12
Start up costs of a new charity: The Legal Network
Trust for London - Central England Law Centre
£150,000 02/10/2019
36
The funding is towards two part-time supervising solicitors for Kids in Need of Defense UK, a pro-bono programme supporting thousands of undocumented children achieve settled status. It's a ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Kids in Need of Defense UK - Phase 2
£180,000 08/07/2019
36
To support the development and growth of Kids in Need of Defense UK, which provides advice and represented to children without secure immigration status.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Central England Law Centre
£30,000 02/07/2019
A restricted grant of £30,000 towards Kids in Need of Defense UK (this grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). The Kids project is a collaboration led by Central England Law Centre. It aims ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Central England Law Centre
£200,000 06/03/2019
36
Towards Kids in Need of Defence UK, supporting undocumented children with pro bono legal representation to regularise their immigration statuses and lead more stable lives.
Unbound Philanthropy - Grant to Central England Law Centre Limited
£100,000 14/11/2018
36
For the development of a pro bono legal representation project for undocumented children living in the UK, based on the Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) model
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Central England Law Centre
£20,000 24/04/2018
£20,000 towards core costs of Birmingham Community Law Centre. Central England Law Centre provides free legal advice to people withinCentral England to fight social exclusion. It runs across two ....more
DCMS - Women First Innovation Fund
£8,500 06/07/2017
To fund innovative projects that support women along the employability pathway
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Benefits Aware
£90,000 22/10/2016
36
To explore and promote early intervention and prevention in advice services.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - KIND UK
£330,000 15/03/2016
36
CELC and partners want to test the viability of a sustainable model of pro bono legal advice. KIND UK will support young people in regularising their immigration statuses aiding them to lead more ....more
The Baring Foundation - Grant to CENTRAL ENGLAND LAW CENTRE
£150,000 10/02/2016
To build a public law/human rights-based approach within grassroots/advocacy organisations to ensure girls/young women in care receive appropriate support
AB Charitable Trust - Ongoing development of Birmingham Community Law Centre
£15,000 28/04/2015
£15,000 towards core costs to support the running of Birmingham Community Law Centre
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Pro-bono legal advice clinics
£48,000 26/04/2014
Delivering of pro bono law clinics (immigration and employment) in partnership with Birmingham University students.
AB Charitable Trust - Specialist legal advice and representation
£15,000 21/01/2014
£15,000 towards a new legal advice service in Birmingham
Barrow Cadbury Trust - New Birmingham Law Centre
£30,000 26/07/2013
New Birmingham Law Centre
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How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 28-79
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 03/07/2001, number: 1087312
  • Registered at Companies House on 29/01/2001, number: 04149673
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
  • 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; AR16: 1 days late, AR15: 1 days late, AR13: 4 days late, AR12: 2 days late, AR11: 1 days late, AR07: 1 days late,
Main office

OAKWOOD HOUSE
ST PATRICKS ROAD ENTRANCE
COVENTRY
CV1 2HL

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND OTHER FORMS OF DISTRESS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF LEGAL AND OTHER ADVISORY REPRESENTATION AND INFORMATION SERVICES IN CENTRAL ENGLAND TO PEOPLE WHO COULD NOT OTHERWISE OBTAIN THEM THROUGH LACK OF MEANS. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY THE IMPROVEMENT AND DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE OF THE LAW AND THE PRACTICE OF THE LAW AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE, HAVING REGARD ESPECIALLY TO THOSE AREAS OF THE LAW WHICH ARE OF PARTICULAR CONCERN TO POOR PEOPLE OR ARE DIRECTED TO THE RELIEF OF POVERTY. TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE OF CENTRAL ENGLAND.

Defined Area of Benefit:

CITY OF COVENTRY

Data Sources

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