Finance Score: -2

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 10

Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3

Grant maker support: +10

Overall GiG Score: 14

BRIXTON ADVICE CENTRE

The principal objectives of Brixton Advice Centre are to promote access to justice by providing good quality advice and assistance. This includes legal advice and representation to people who would otherwise be unable to afford legal services. The Centre also supports people maximise income and to better manage their lives.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

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 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
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Established: 39 years

www.brixtonadvice.org.uk

info@brixtonadvice.org.uk

0207 733 7554

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	Volun- teers
31/03/23		£332	£332	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	24
31/03/22		£212	£287	£-75	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	14
31/03/21		£349	£304	£45	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	17
31/03/20		£257	£258	£-1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/19		£266	£306	£-39	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
31/03/18		£317	£378	£-61	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£466	£509	£-43	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£500	£497	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£552	£524	£28	£4	£563	£134	3.1	11	0
31/03/14	*	£380	£353	£27	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£404	£353	£51	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	*	£352	£354	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	*	£327	£322	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£262	£287	£-25	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£227	£251	£-23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£279	£263	£16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07		£257	£246	£12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	*	£235	£261	£-26	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£225	£238	£-13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	*	£432	£228	£204	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information

Where it operates

Throughout London,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
24 volunteers

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

Trust for London	£151,070
City Bridge Trust	£118,300
DCMS	£81,225
Access to Justice Foundation	£63,194

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Trust for London - Brixton Advice Centre
£8,200	29/09/2022	This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-01.06.2021-9128
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Brixton Advice Centre
£105,800	17/12/2021	£105,800 for a further two and final years (£52,800, £53,000) for two part-time Advisers (2 x 0.5 FTE) and associated project costs.
Trust for London - Brixton Advice Centre
£122,000	06/10/2021 36	The funding is for a Housing Solicitor/Adviser and management and development support, to provide predominantly online and digital services across Lambeth and South London. The advice will be ....more The funding is for a Housing Solicitor/Adviser and management and development support, to provide predominantly online and digital services across Lambeth and South London. The advice will be delivered through our Online Legal Clinic, a recently developed digital platform and will have a significant developmental aspect.
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£25,000	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 COVID35
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£38,194	28/09/2020	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
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£81,225	22/09/2020	"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 "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."
Trust for London - Brixton Advice Centre
£20,870	04/09/2020 6	The funding is for continued development of BAC Online Legal Clinic, that was set up and funded initially for three months under the London Community Response Wave 2.. This funding is to cover the ....more The funding is for continued development of BAC Online Legal Clinic, that was set up and funded initially for three months under the London Community Response Wave 2.. This funding is to cover the costs of making our premises COVID19 safe to facilitate full return to work, re-opening to the public and, IT improvements to allow video interviewing in interview rooms.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Brixton Advice Centre
£12,500	09/04/2020	A one-off, unrestricted grant of £12,500, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisation’s current grant’
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Brixton Advice Centre
£146,000	06/07/2018 36	£146,000 over three years (£48,000, £50,000, £48,000) for the part-time salary of an Advisor and associated project costs.
National Lottery Community Fund - Food Poverty Project
£9,950	06/07/2018 12	The funding will be used to provide and promote the range of support available to the local community who are experiencing poverty. The project aims to improve awareness of the support available, ....more The funding will be used to provide and promote the range of support available to the local community who are experiencing poverty. The project aims to improve awareness of the support available, including financial resilience workshops.

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 28-76

CALLUM CHRISTIE LYNCH Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Advice And Information Officer, Liberty

GARETH ROSS JOHN BEATON Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Barrister

LUCAS BERTHOLDI-SAAD Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Area Organiser, Unison Greater London Region

NIGEL DAVID WACHMAN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Accountant (Ret'D)

SARAH NICHOLA CATTO (Chair) Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Unemployed

VEENA SRIRANGAM Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Barrister

VIMAL TILAKAPALA Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Solicitor, Other trusteeship: THE MAGIC CIRCLE FOUNDATION LIMITED,

WILLIAM FREDERICK TAGGART, Occupation: Charity Project Director

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 09/05/1985, number: 291484
Registered at Companies House on 08/03/1985, number: 01893924

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
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR14: 2 days late, AR12: 2 days late, AR11: 39 days late, AR06: 203 days late, AR05: 1 days late, AR04: 102 days late,

Main office

BRIXTON ADVICE CENTRE
165-167 RAILTON ROAD
LONDON
SE24 0LU

Objectives

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND OF ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY OF GREATER LONDON.

Defined Area of Benefit:

GREATER LONDON

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