Finance Score: 1

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 10

Reasonable growth: +1
No PartB

Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +10

Overall GiG Score: 17

PRO BONO COMMUNITY

Pro Bono Community seeks to improve access to justice by providing specialist training in legal advice and social welfare law to lawyers, trainees and students and then coordinating, managing and monitoring placements for them as volunteers at Law Centres and advice agencies including PBC's own remote appeals advice clinic.

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 and there are significant future grants due to be received
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Established: 11 years

www.probonocommunity.org.uk

info@probonocommunity.org.uk

02070923957

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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
31/08/22	£152	£155	£-2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/08/21	£117	£144	£-27	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/08/20	£137	£114	£22	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/08/19	£104	£105	£-1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/08/18	£116	£103	£12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/08/17	£100	£91	£9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/08/16	£99	£75	£23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/08/15	£79	£82	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/08/14	£81	£51	£30	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Education/Training
Other Charitable Purposes
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

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	£216,605
National Lottery Community Fund	£127,970
Trust for London	£90,000
DCMS	£39,289

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Pro Bono Community
£199,425	06/04/2023	£199,425 over five years (£36,090; £37,895; £39,790; £41,780; £43,870) to cover the costs of a part time Volunteer Coordinator role, training costs and organisational overheads.
Trust for London - Pro Bono Community
£90,000	13/10/2021 24	The funding is for developing and running a remote clinic providing free legal advice staffed by a supervisor and clinic administrator supported by sixteen volunteers. The clinic will provide ....more The funding is for developing and running a remote clinic providing free legal advice staffed by a supervisor and clinic administrator supported by sixteen volunteers. The clinic will provide specialist social security legal advice to clients requiring casework and representation for appeals to the First Tier and Upper Tribunal.
National Lottery Community Fund - Advice Connect
£127,970	17/06/2021	The group is using funding to extend the use of digital advice services not just for the duration of the pandemic but as a permanent feature of the advice landscape. The project will offer regular ....more The group is using funding to extend the use of digital advice services not just for the duration of the pandemic but as a permanent feature of the advice landscape. The project will offer regular seminar events for people living in private rented accommodation to understand the issues faced by tenants and also to generate suggestions around the priorities and focus of the project.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£39,289	29/07/2020	"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 "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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Pro Bono Community
£17,180	19/05/2020	A grant of £17,180 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the appliciation, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Pro Bono Community
£74,000	21/03/2019 24	£74,000 over two further years (£36,500, £37,500) for a part-time Training and Volunteer Co-ordinator, training costs and overheads to train law students to volunteer in community advice agencies ....more £74,000 over two further years (£36,500, £37,500) for a part-time Training and Volunteer Co-ordinator, training costs and overheads to train law students to volunteer in community advice agencies in London.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Pro Bono Community
£50,000	05/07/2018 24	over two years as continuation funding towards salaries and running costs at an organisation providing specialist training to equip law students, trainee lawyers and lawyers to be effective ....more over two years as continuation funding towards salaries and running costs at an organisation providing specialist training to equip law students, trainee lawyers and lawyers to be effective volunteers within law centres and other advice agencies in London
Tudor Trust - Grant to Pro Bono Community
£60,000	06/12/2016 24	over two years towards the core costs of an organisation providing specialist training to equip law students, trainee laywers and lawyers to be effective volunteers within law centres and other ....more over two years towards the core costs of an organisation providing specialist training to equip law students, trainee laywers and lawyers to be effective volunteers within law centres and other advice agencies
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Pro Bono Community
£110,955	18/03/2016 36	£110,955 over 3 years (3 x £36,985) for a part-time salary (2.5 days p/w), training costs and overheads to train law students to volunteer in community advice agencies.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

CLAIRE MARSH Appointed: 2023

DANIEL LAKING Appointed: 2019

HARRIET HALL Appointed: 2023, Other trusteeship: LITTON VILLAGE HALL,

LIVIA VELICU (Chair) Appointed: 2019

OMAR QADIR Appointed: 2021

STEPHEN LEVETT Appointed: 2019

THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE ADAM JOHNSON Appointed: 2014

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 02/08/2013, number: 1153220

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Investment
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

9 returns made; all on time

Main office

93 Tabernacle Street
LONDON
EC2A 4BA

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:(A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEGAL EDUCATION AND THE STUDY OF LAW;(B) THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF POVERTY, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF EFFECTIVE LEGAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN THE AREAS OF LAW MOST LIKELY TO AFFECT THOSE IN POVERTY OR NEED AND TO THE BENEFIT OF THOSE IN POVERTY OR NEED AND THE PROVISION OF FREE LEGAL ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE TO PEOPLE WHO ARE UNABLE TO AFFORD TO PAY FOR SUCH ADVICE; AND(C) THE PROMOTION OF THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE LAW.

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