Overall GiG Score: 23 ?
Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 14
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +14

ISLINGTON LAW CENTRE 

Provision of legal advice, casework and representation to local communities.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • 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
Established: 46 years

www.islingtonlaw.org.uk

info@islingtonlaw.org.uk

02072887649

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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£2,577£1,847£731£0£2,437£2,13313.9410
31/03/22£2,132£1,739£393£0£1,706£1,46910.1390
31/03/21£2,277£1,608£670£0£1,314£1,0117.53820
31/03/20£1,759£1,573£187£0£644£5063.93620
31/03/19£1,828£1,656£172£0£457£2301.73715
31/03/18£1,461£1,630£-169£0£285£1911.4360
31/03/17*£1,685£1,672£12£0£444£2151.5430
31/03/16£1,681£1,626£55£0£432£2772380
31/03/15£1,956£1,746£210£9£377£3162.2270
31/03/14£1,572£1,713£-141£7£170£1431260
31/03/13*£1,626£1,607£19£6£311£1371270
31/03/12£1,671£1,474£197£6£292£2512250
31/03/11£1,473£1,473£1£5£95£600.5250
31/03/10£1,281£1,264£17£5£94£360.3240
31/03/09£976£973£3£4£77£140.2250
31/03/08*£889£903£-14£4£74£250.3200
31/03/07*£716£849£-134£3£88£340.5170
31/03/06*£751£803£-51£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£812£861£-49£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£773£818£-45£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 4%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 4%
Liabilities/Income: 4%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 88%
Reserves/Spending: 13.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 15 months
Quick Ratio: 10.7
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 41 employees
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,

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
Three Guineas Trust£497,000
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£433,650
Cloudesley£350,000
Access to Justice Foundation£214,672
City Bridge Trust£127,800
Joseph Rowntree Foundation£120,000
BBC Children in Need£90,500
AB Charitable Trust£82,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Three Guineas Trust - Welfare rights advice and legal representation for disabled people
£198,000 22/12/2023
Welfare rights advice and legal representation for disabled people
Cloudesley - Grant to Islington Law Centre
£2,000 23/10/2023
Cloudesley Partner top-up grant - cost of living 2023
Cloudesley - Grant to Islington Law Centre
£8,000 19/09/2023
Cloudesley Partner welfare grant 2024
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Islington Law Centre (The Migrants' Law Project)
£3,000 13/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Three Guineas Trust - Cost of living
£5,000 18/01/2023
To help with the effects of the rise in cost of living on the charity's operation
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Support for Islington Law Centre's Immigration Unit
£18,000 18/01/2023
Islington Law Centre (ILC) supports marginalised people, achieving positive outcomes for clients and securing policy and practice change through strategic legal and policy work. This grant will ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Breaking the Chains – young migrants and refugees surviving and thriving
£10,150 18/01/2023
The Migrant and Refugee Children’s Legal Unit (MiCLU) is a specialist child centred legal and policy hub based at Islington Law Centre, representing children and young people (CYP) in the ....more
Access to Justice Foundation - Community Justice Fund Wave Three
£14,672 22/11/2022
Wave three of the Community Justice Fund aims to support organisations delivering social welfare advice services to people most impacted by the cost-of-living crisis.
Cloudesley - Grant to Islington Law Centre
£2,000 24/10/2022
Cloudesley Partner top-up grant - cost of living
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Islington Law Centre
£22,000 06/10/2022
A restricted grant of £22,000 towards The Migrants' Law Project (Year 3 of 3 years)This grant includes a 10% cost of living uplift. The Migrants' Law Project is a legal and public legal education ....more
Cloudesley - Grant to Islington Law Centre
£130,000 27/09/2022
Three Advice Project, including the form filling clinic - funding for Jan 2023 to Dec 2024
Cloudesley - Grant to Islington Law Centre
£8,000 27/09/2022
Cloudesley Partner welfare grant 2023
City Bridge Trust - Grant to ISLINGTON LAW CENTRE
£127,800 21/07/2022
24
£127,800 over two further and final years (£63,000; £64,800) for a specialist Welfare Benefits advisor to provide client advocacy, casework, and representation for UC claimants as well as deliver ....more
Three Guineas Trust - Towards employment of a welfare benefits solicitor
£120,000 04/07/2022
Towards employment of a welfare benefits adviser
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Support for Islington Law Centre's Immigration Unit
£240,000 09/05/2022
Islington Law Centre (ILC) supports marginalised people, achieving positive outcomes for clients and securing policy and practice change through strategic legal and policy work. This grant will ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Islington Law Centre
£20,000 20/01/2022
A restricted grant of £20,000 per year for 3 years towards the Migrants & Refugee Children's Legal Unit (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). The Migrant and Refugee Children’s ....more
London Legal Support Trust - Centres of Excellence 2021
£10,000 14/12/2021
Long term core funding for specialist free legal advice organisations, along with in-kind help and support with ongoing development. Aiming to support a sustainable and robust specialist advice ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Breaking the Chains – young migrants and refugees surviving and thriving
£150,000 29/11/2021
36
The Migrant and Refugee Children’s Legal Unit (MiCLU) is a specialist child centred legal and policy hub based at Islington Law Centre, representing children and young people (CYP) in the ....more
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to Migrants' Law Project (Islington Law Centre)
£120,000 27/11/2021
Strategic Legal Action for asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in the UK
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Islington Law Centre (The Migrants' Law Project)
£20,000 07/10/2021
A restricted grant of £20,000 towards The Migrants' Law Project (This grant is renewable - year 2 of up to 3 years). The Migrants' Law Project is a legal and public legal education project, working ....more
Cloudesley - Grant to Islington Law Centre
£8,000 21/09/2021
Cloudesley Partner Welfare Grant 2022 - Awarded Sep 2021
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Islington Law Centre
£90,500 10/08/2021
The project will provide specialist immigration advice to identify and resolve the immigration and citizenship needs of children and young people in local authority care. This will support their ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Hearing young people's voices
£10,000 14/05/2021
The funding will be used to develop an online resources toolkit developed by and for children/young people in the asylum system to empower them to have their voices heard and develop child/young ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Islington Law Centre (The Migrants' Law Project)
£20,000 08/10/2020
A restricted grant of £20,000 towards The Migrants' Law Project (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). The Migrants' Law Project is a legal and public legal education project, working ....more
Cloudesley - Grant to Islington Law Centre
£12,000 22/09/2020
Cloudesley Partner Welfare Grant 2021 - Awarded Sep 2020
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£200,000 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
Comic Relief - Adapting services to deliver legal advice services
£40,000 23/06/2020
6
COVID19 Recovery funding
Trust for London - Islington Law Centre
£16,636 29/05/2020
3
The funding is for digital infrastructure to enable safe remote working which became necessary in the aftermath of the Covid19 emergency. This has included supplying staff with laptops mobile phones, ....more
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
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£15,500 07/05/2020
3
Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Islington Law Centre (The Migrants' Law Project)
£15,000 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Three Guineas Trust - Employment of a welfare benefit's solicitor
£174,000 11/12/2019
Employment of a welfare benefit's solicitor.
Greater London Authority - Grant to 'Islington Law Centre'
£5,000 10/12/2019
European Outreach Grant
Cloudesley - Grant to Islington Law Centre
£12,000 24/09/2019
Cloudesley Partner Welfare Grant Awarded Sep 2019
Cloudesley - Grant to Islington Law Centre
£107,000 24/09/2019
Three Advice Project - funding for January 2020 to December 2022
Cloudesley - Grant to Islington Law Centre
£61,000 24/09/2019
Form Filling Clinic- funding for Janury 2020 to December 2022
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Islington Law Centre
£90,000 11/03/2019
Implementing innovative tools to support law-hesitant organisations to understand the role of, and undertake, strategic legal action to protect and promote migrants’ rights.
Cloudesley - Grant to Islington Law Centre
£20,000 27/11/2018
Welfare Benefits Form Filling Clinic Dec 18 to Nov 19
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Islington Law Centre
£185,800 14/11/2018
36
£185,800 over three years (£60,100; £61,900; £63,800) for a specialist Welfare Benefits advisor to provide client advocacy, casework, and representation as well as training of volunteers to ....more
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Islington Law Centre
£112,750 10/10/2018
Three Advice Projects and Form Filling Clinic
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Albanian children and young people - breaking the chains
£190,000 01/10/2018
36
MiCLU seeks to achieve social justice by changing policy and practice to ensure respect for the rights, and improve the lives, of children who have migrated to the UK. Through this grant, MiCLU will ....more
Cloudesley - Grant to Islington Law Centre
£4,000 19/09/2018
Cloudesley Partners Grant (additional grant award up to 31/12/18)
Cloudesley - Grant to Islington Law Centre
£12,000 19/09/2018
Interim Welfare Grant (awarded Sep 2018)
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Islington Law Centre (The Migrants' Law Project)
£150,000 29/08/2018
60
Towards the Migrants Law Project (MLP) which promotes fair treatment and access to justice for migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in the UK through the use of public law.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Work arising from successfully restoring legal aid for migrant children.
£20,000 09/08/2018
12
MiCLU seeks to achieve social justice by changing policy and practice to ensure respect for the rights, and improve the lives, of children who have migrated to the UK. Through this grant, MiCLU will ....more
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to Migrants' Law Project (Islington Law Centre)
£105,000 07/07/2018
36
MLP core costs
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Islington Law Centre (The Migrants' Law Project)
£20,000 24/04/2018
£20,000 towards the Migrants Law Project work on safe routes to family reunion. The Migrant's Law Project seeks to promote fair treatment and access to justice for migrants, refugees and asylum ....more
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Islington Law Centre
£90,000 08/11/2017
Towards the costs of the Three Advice Projects (TAP)
Comic Relief - Refugee and Migrant Children’s Rights and Protection
£99,997 27/09/2017
36
When children arrive seeking asylum in the UK their journey is far from over. Children must navigate a complex legal system to secure their status, which in any case is often temporary. Many report ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Islington Law Centre
£30,000 10/08/2017
36
Advocacy support for 150 5-18 year olds who have been excluded from school. The project will support children to re-engage in education, develop positive relationships and make positive choices.
National Lottery Community Fund - Spreading the word - involving our community in accessing rights
£10,000 11/04/2017
12
This project will run a programme which will develop a network of diverse volunteers who will share information and expertise and provide peer support through personal experiences and training. This ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Islington Law Centre
£118,990 09/02/2017
36
This project will provide legal advice for young people at risk of becoming homeless. Young people will become safe from harm, develop coping strategies and be able to access the services they need.
Three Guineas Trust - Caseworker and associated costs
£165,000 10/01/2017
Towards a caseworker and associated costs.
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Islington Law Centre
£100,000 04/10/2016
Towards the costs of the Three Advice Projects (TAP)
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Reuniting refugee families with their relatives trapped in European camps
£150,000 19/04/2016
36
Under ‘best interests’ requirements, both the UK and French governments have legal obligations to young people which they are failing to comply with. This application builds on the success ....more
AB Charitable Trust - Protecting refugees' rights through public law
£20,000 24/02/2016
£20,000 towards salary of a Legal Coordinator
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Legal needs report
£5,000 20/10/2014
A grant to Islington Law Centre for Legal needs report
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - SOI Phase 2
£80,000 31/07/2014
Supported Options Initiative Phase 2 grant
National Lottery Community Fund - Advising Islington Together
£349,823 25/04/2013
24
Project: The aim of this new project is to promote collaborative working between agencies providing free advice in order to improve the clients' awareness, and access to a comprehensive source of ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Islington Law Centre (The Migrants' Law Project)
£78,000 21/11/2012
Towards core costs for a public law and legal education project supporting refugees and migrants.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Supported Options Initiative
£120,000 27/03/2012
Development of pilot advice and information services to benefit young people with irregular immigration status, combining outreach work, partnership working and innovative approaches to service ....more
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How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 45-75
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 23/11/1977, number: 268468
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/03/1977, number: 01302947
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
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR17: 0 days late, AR13: 2 days late, AR08: 1 days late, AR07: 135 days late, AR06: 1 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

ISLINGTON LAW CENTRE
38 DEVONIA ROAD
LONDON
N1 8JH

Objectives

(a) The relief of poverty amongst persons resident or working in England and Wales in particular the London Borough of Islington and the surrounding area by providing such persons with legal advice services and representation which they could not otherwise obtain or which it would not be reasonably practicable or appropriate for them to obtain elsewhere; including by the provision of legal advice services and representation to help migrants, refugees and asylum seekers to take steps towards the regularisation of immigration status where appropriate;(b) To advance the education of the public in the law of England and Wales and the application thereof.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LONDON BOROUGH OF ISLINGTON

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