Overall GiG Score: 20 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 11
    • Good trustee age range: +3
    • Dynamic board: +3
    • Gender balanced board: +3
    • Grant maker support: +11

    DISABILITY ADVICE SERVICE LAMBETH 

    Legal advice for disabled people on benefits, housing, debt, community care. Professional advocacy for disabled and older people and carers. Direct payments support service for Lambeth. Into Sport project for disabled people. Employment support project for young Disabled people. Disability Hate Crime policy work. Community development work with Disabled people. Local strategic and policy work.
    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 and gender and dynamic in terms of composition
    Established: 23 years

    www.disabilitylambeth.org.uk

    enquiry.line@disabilitylambeth.org.uk

    02077385656

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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£504£506£-2£0£195£1674148
    31/03/22£476£549£-74n/an/an/an/an/a12
    31/03/21£699£619£80£0£270£2214.31615
    31/03/20£541£518£23£0£190£1423.31621
    31/03/19£450£438£12n/an/an/an/an/a5
    31/03/18£401£438£-37£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/17£411£424£-13£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/16£338£399£-61£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/15£460£452£8£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/14£556£597£-41£5£259£2515.1140
    31/03/13£529£558£-30£6£311£2555.5150
    31/03/12£420£413£8£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/11£413£370£43£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/10£376£358£18£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/09£436£346£89£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/08£318£304£14£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/07£309£324£-14£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/06£328£327£1£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/05£368£269£99£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/04£211£163£49£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: 35%
    Liabilities/Income: 21%
    Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 86%
    Reserves/Spending: 4 months
    Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
    Quick Ratio: 2.5
    Asset Split ?
    What it does
    • Disability
    • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
    Who works here?
    • 14 employees
    • 8 volunteers
    Who it helps
    • Elderly/Old People
    • Other Defined Groups
    • People With Disabilities
    How it operates
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Lambeth, Southwark,

    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
    Henry Smith Charity£176,000
    Trust for London£128,286
    Vision Foundation£54,976
    DCMS£49,871
    Walcot Foundation£41,635
    Access to Justice Foundation£24,542
    Power to Change£20,000
    Co-Operative Group£6,229
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Walcot Foundation - Access to Advice
    £29,345 16/03/2023
    DASL is a Disabled People?s Organisation and have been providing advice services in Lambeth since 1984. Access to Advice project will provide high-quality welfare benefits advice to support ....more
    Trust for London - Disability Advice Service Lambeth
    £8,936 29/09/2022
    This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-SVRR-2021-9022
    Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Disability Advice Service Lambeth (DASL)
    £176,000 07/04/2022
    36
    towards three years' running costs of a project providing support for parents with learning disabilities, including parents involved in Lambeth Children‘s Services, in the London Borough of Lambeth.
    Trust for London - Disability Advice Service Lambeth
    £119,350 13/10/2021
    24
    The funding is for us to maintain and develop our specialist peer-led advice service, providing high quality advice to Disabled people in Lambeth.
    Power to Change - Renewal - Disability Advice Service Lambeth
    £20,000 17/03/2021
    Grant to Renewal - Disability Advice Service Lambeth
    Vision Foundation - Working age VI adults to learn how to present, interview, produce and promote weekly radio chat show and podcasts.
    £49,979 10/03/2021
    Working with visually impaired people of working age from across London to develop their radio and podcasting skills. They will learn how to present, interview and produce a weekly radio chat show ....more
    DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
    £49,871 15/09/2020
    "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 ....more
    Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
    £24,542 16/07/2020
    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
    Walcot Foundation - COVID19 - Volunteer Coordinator
    £12,290 22/05/2020
    12
    The funding would enable DASL to pay for 21 hours of additional staff time and volunteer expenses to coordinate an increase in their volunteer/peer support work required as a result of the C19 ....more
    Vision Foundation - Intoradio Show with Smashing Records
    £4,997 04/03/2020
    Smashing Records Radio Show: Visually impaired people will be invited to be guests on and host the show once a month and to attend two VI radio training workshops
    Co-Operative Group - Grant to Disability Advice Service Lambeth (DASL)
    £6,229 15/11/2019
    We want to fund our choir, a lifeline for many people who have survived a stroke or brain Injury and want to meet others and sing together.
    Trust for London - Disability Advice Service Lambeth
    £169,000 29/11/2018
    37
    The funding is to secure the future of DASL's Advice Service. It will cover the salary and running costs of the Senior Advice Worker with hours increased to full-time, the recruitment of four ....more
    National Lottery Community Fund - The London Stroke Choir
    £9,260 04/05/2018
    12
    This project will organise a choir for survivors of stroke and their families to meet and perform, providing access to peer support and improved health and wellbeing.
    Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Disability Advice Service Lambeth
    £40,000 29/06/2011
    the salary of the Advice Service 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: 33-72
    Legal constitution
    • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 06/07/2001, number: 1087399
    • Registered at Companies House on 11/05/2001, number: 04214688
    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
    • 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; all on time
    Main office

    DIRECTOR
    336 BRIXTON ROAD
    LONDON
    SW9 7AA

    Objectives

    THE COMPANY'S OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) ARE TO RELIEVE PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES LIVING IN, OR ASSOCIATED WITH, THE LONDON BOROUGH OF LAMBETH AND SURROUNDING AREAS, SO THAT THEY MAY LEAD ACTIVE AND FULFILLING LIVES INTEGRATED IN SOCIETY.

    Defined Area of Benefit:

    THE LONDON BOROUGH OF LAMBETH AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving
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