Overall GiG Score: 26 ?
Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 15
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +15

JOINT COUNCIL FOR THE WELFARE OF IMMIGRANTS 

JCWI continues to maintain a leading place as an independent national organisation advocating for fairness and equality in immigration, nationalisation and aslyum law and policy in the UK. It undertakes policy work, advice and casework, training, and publication work to fulfil its objectives in the interest of marginalised migrants and refugees in the community.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently
Established: 17 years
(32 years as a company)

www.jcwi.org.uk

info@jcwi.org.uk

02072518708

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseX
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
31/03/23£1,332£1,257£75£0£761£6796.5200
31/03/22£1,065£1,225£-160£0£515£3953.9210
31/03/21£1,224£1,170£54£15£675£4584.7200
31/03/20£1,064£1,158£-94£18£570£4454.6194
31/03/19£990£730£260£18£664£5178.5135
31/03/18£684£645£39£15£404£3236100
31/03/17£766£555£211£16£365£871.980
31/03/16£582£483£99£11£154£1543.8100
31/03/15£429£427£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£378£362£16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13*£402£390£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£526£519£7£12£10£100.2100
31/03/11£465£461£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£506£498£8£14£-1£-6-0.1100
31/03/09£595£587£8£20£-10£-16-0.3100
31/03/08£739£735£3£15£-18£-19-0.3100

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 6%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 21%
Liabilities/Income: 15%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 89%
Reserves/Spending: 6.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 1.5
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 20 employees
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Islington,

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
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£455,000
Esmee Fairbairn£344,000
Unbound Philanthropy£290,000
Trust for London£195,250
Barrow Cadbury Trust£180,000
AB Charitable Trust£150,000
Joseph Rowntree Foundation£150,000
The Legal Education Foundation£118,441
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Crossborder Forum
£150,000 02/10/2023
Crossborder Forum (CBF) is a forum for organisations and activists working on migration issues on the UK-FR-BE border to come together, share expertise, and work towards shared advocacy across ....more
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Crossborder Forum 2023-2025
£30,000 17/07/2023
To continue to support the Forum's work.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Resist & Persist: Radically transforming the UK’s immigration system
£225,000 06/03/2023
Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) provides legal support for people who have migrated to the UK and their families, specialising in immigration and asylum law and policy. This grant ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
£15,000 06/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Unbound Philanthropy - Grant to Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
£90,000 15/11/2022
For general support of a charity working to improve the immigration system for migrants, refugees and their families
Trust for London - Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
£15,250 29/09/2022
This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-05.10.2021-9342
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Cross-Border Forum
£30,000 15/09/2022
To support the Cross-border Forum's work.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
£50,000 25/02/2022
An unrestricted grant of £50,000 (This grant is renewable - year 3 of up to 5 years). JCWI work to ensure no one suffers disadvantage just because they have crossed a border, through legal work, ....more
Trust for London - Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
£180,000 09/02/2022
This funding is for continuing to operate our successful legal helpline for undocumented migrants and their families, our outreach work with the Red Cross, and to continue analysing macro- and ....more
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Defending rights, articulating alternatives.
£90,000 23/10/2021
To support JCWI's policy, advocacy and communications work.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Restructuring to better support our sector and our movement
£60,000 04/10/2021
12
Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) provides legal support for people who have migrated to the UK and their families, specialising in immigration and asylum law and policy. This grant ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
£50,000 27/04/2021
An unrestricted grant of £50,000 (This grant is renewable - year 2 of up to 5 years). Through legal work, campaigning, research, and advocacy JCWI aim to ensure no one suffers disadvantage just ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
£54,000 24/03/2021
1
Towards unrestricted core costs from the Racialised Communities Top Up Fund
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
£150,000 28/11/2020
36
Core costs
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£75,000 13/10/2020
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
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI)
£40,000 23/06/2020
An urgent legal challenge to changes made (in response to Covid-19) to the process by which appeals are considered by the tribunals.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
£25,000 12/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£20,000 16/04/2020
3
Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
The Legal Education Foundation - JFF Host 2020
£118,441 13/03/2020
A grant to the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 7.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
£50,000 14/01/2020
An unrestricted grant of £50,000 (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 5 years, subject to annual trustee approval). JCWI delivers legal work, campaigning, research, and advocacy within the UK ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
£250,000 17/12/2019
60
Towards unrestricted core costs to support migrants and refugees to navigate the immigration system, and to influence policy and practice to ensure it is fair and just.
Unbound Philanthropy - Grant to Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
£200,000 23/07/2019
36
For general support of a charity working to improve the immigration system for migrants, refugees and their families
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Convening on a long-term vision for immigration policy
£30,000 09/05/2019
12
To develop a longer-term vision for comprehensive immigration reform.
Trust for London - Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
£150,000 20/02/2019
36
The funding is for continuing the legal helpline for undocumented migrants, outreach work with the Red Cross and to continue to deepen the link between this work and its growing campaigning and ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Legal support
£210,000 09/07/2018
36
Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) provides legal support for people who have migrated to the UK and their families, specialising in immigration and asylum law and policy. Through ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
£15,000 04/07/2017
£15,000 towards work of policy team. Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants aims to support the rights of the most disadvantaged through legal advice and influencing the debate on migration. ....more
Trust for London - Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
£23,629 30/03/2017
12
The funding is to support pre-litigation work, the implementation of the ruling in the Supreme Court case of SSHD [2017] UKSC 10, following our successful intervention in the case: making ....more
Unbound Philanthropy - Grant to Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
£150,000 16/11/2016
30
For general operating support to advocate for the rights of European migrants and just family reunion rules 
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Strategic Communications and Migration Hub Support
£20,000 16/08/2016
24
To provide additional capacity to JCWI to engage in strategic communications support
AB Charitable Trust - Fighting for the rights of migrants
£15,000 26/04/2016
£15,000 towards core funding for policy and communications team
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
£120,000 06/04/2016
36
Towards core costs to increase staffing capacity of an organisation addressing justice in immigration, nationality and refugee law and policy.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - JCWI at 50: supporting strategic review to benefit more vulnerable young people
£60,000 21/03/2016
18
JCWI will test a new internal structure and model of delivery to maximise their resources and increase their impact. This includes a more joined-up approach to casework, campaigns and training. This ....more
Barrow Cadbury Trust - I am an Immigrant I have a Right to Rent
£16,400 17/12/2014
To enable the Movement Against Xenophobia (MAX) to effectively contribute to the Home Office evaluation on the Right to Rent pilot.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 8/9 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 26-61
  • DAVID JAMES Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Chief Financial Officer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 08/01/2007, number: 1117513
  • Registered at Companies House on 25/03/1992, number: 02700424
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
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • 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
16 returns made; AR13: 9 days late,
Main office

441 Caledonian Road
London
N7 9BG

Objectives

3. THE OBJECTS OF THE ORGANISATION ARE:3.1 TO RELIEVE POVERTY AMONG IMMIGRANTS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, COUNSEL, ASSISTANCE AND REPRESENTATION TO THOSE WHO ARE CONCERNED WITH OR AFFECTED BY ANY UNITED KINGDOM, EUROPEAN COMMUNITY AND INTERNATIONAL LAW IN RELATION TO IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY WHO COULD NOT OTHERWISE OBTAIN SUCH ADVICE, COUNSELLING, ASSISTANCE AND REPRESENTATION AS A RESULT OF THEIR LACK OF RESOURCES;3.2 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING ON THE LAW AND RELATED SUBJECTS AND IN PARTICULAR LAW THAT MAY AFFECT IMMIGRANTS;3.3 TO PROMOTE THE HUMAN RIGHTS ARISING UNDER OR BY VIRTUE OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 1988 AND THE PROMOTION OF THE CONVENTION RIGHTS AS DEFINED BY S.1 HUMAN RIGHTS ACT INCLUDING THE ELIMINATION OF THE INFRINGEMENT OF THOSE RIGHTS AND THE PROMOTION OF EFFECTIVE REMEDIES FOLLOWING ANY BREACH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY:(A) ADVANCING EDUCATION IN HUMAN RIGHTS WHETHER BY TEACHING OR PRODUCING MATERIALS (B) CULTIVATING A SENTIMENT IN FAVOUR OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND RAISING AWARENESS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM INCLUDING BY THE USE OF PUBLICATIONS, CODES OF PRACTICE, SCHEMES FOR EMPLOYERS, AWARD SCHEMES, THE MEDIA AND PUBLIC ADVOCACY(C) PROMOTING THE ENFORCEMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM PARTICULARLY AMONGST IMMIGRANTS, WOMEN AND ALL MINORITY COMMUNITIES(D) PROMOTING THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAW RELATING TO HUMAN RIGHTS BY:(I) THE PROVISION OF SPECIALIST LEGAL ADVICE, ASSISTANCE AND REPRESENTATION TO PEOPLE WHO ARE UNABLE TO OBTAIN SUCH LEGAL ADVICE, ASSISTANCE AND REPRESENTATION AS A RESULT OF THEIR LACK OF RESOURCES;(II) THE PROVISION OF SPECIALIST LEGAL INTERVENTION TO ASSIST THE COURTS; AND (III) THE PROVISION OF ADVICE ON THE INSTITUTIONS, STRUCTURES AND MECHANISMS BY WHICH SUCH LAW IS ENFORCED;3.4 TO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF RACE, SEX OR NATIONAL ORIGIN FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY:(A) RAISING AWARENESS OF ALL ASPECTS OF DISCRIMINATION IN SOCIETY INCLUDING BY PUBLICATIONS, LECTURES, USE OF THE MEDIA, PUBLIC ADVOCACY AND OTHER MEANS OF COMMUNICATION (B) CONDUCTING OR COMMISSIONING RESEARCH ON EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY AND PUBLISHING THE RESULTS OF THE SAME TO THE PUBLIC(C) ADVANCING EDUCATION IN EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY WHETHER BY TEACHING OR PRODUCING MATERIALS(D) CULTIVATING A SENTIMENT IN FAVOUR OR EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY INCLUDING BY THE USE OF PUBLICATIONS, CODES OF PRACTICE, SCHEMES FOR EMPLOYERS, AWARD SCHEMES, THE MEDIA AND PUBLIC ADVOCACY(E) PROMOTING THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAW RELATING TO EQUALITY ISSUES BY:(I) THE PROVISION OF SPECIALIST LEGAL ADVICE, ASSISTANCE AND REPRESENTATION TO PEOPLE WHO ARE UNABLE TO OBTAIN SUCH LEGAL ADVICE, ASSISTANCE AND REPRESENTATION AS A RESULT OF THEIR LACK OF RESOURCES;(II) THE PROVISION OF SPECIALIST LEGAL INTERVENTION TO ASSIST THE COURTS; AND (III) THE PROVISION OF ADVICE ON THE INSTITUTIONS, STRUCTURES AND MECHANISMS BY WHICH SUCH LAW IS ENFORCED;3.5 TO PROMOTE ANY OTHER PURPOSE WHICH IS CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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