Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 5

Support Score: 11

No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Mainly female board: -1

Grant maker support: +11

Overall GiG Score: 16

PADDINGTON LAW CENTRE LIMITED

PROVISION OF LEGAL ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE

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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board is predominantly female
Over half the Board have joined recently

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: 36 years
(38 years as a company)

info@paddingtonlawcentre.org.uk

02089603155

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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		£208	£195	£13	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/22		£198	£218	£-20	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/21		£250	£182	£68	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/20		£178	£183	£-4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/19		£131	£191	£-59	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/18		£188	£217	£-29	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£255	£226	£29	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£219	£228	£-9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£211	£215	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£237	£230	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	*	£273	£240	£33	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£200	£233	£-33	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	*	£300	£281	£20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£335	£275	£60	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	*	£355	£286	£70	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	*	£335	£281	£54	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	*	£402	£408	£-7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	*	£328	£399	£-71	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£371	£396	£-25	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04		£357	£373	£-16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

What it does

Accommodation/Housing
Economic/Community Development/Employment
General Charitable Purposes
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

Who works here?

2 volunteers

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information

Where it operates

City Of Westminster,

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	£141,900
City Bridge Trust	£120,625
Trust for London	£116,844
AB Charitable Trust	£60,000
Access to Justice Foundation	£50,000
The London Community Foundation	£17,628
National Lottery Community Fund	£10,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Paddington Law Centre
£141,900	09/11/2022 36	towards three years' salary and on costs of a Specialist Housing Caseworker providing support for people on low incomes facing multiple disadvantages in West London.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Paddington Law Centre
£20,000	06/10/2022	An unrestricted grant of £20,000. Paddington Law Centre provides specialist legal advice across housing, welfare benefits and employment law.
Trust for London - Paddington Law Centre
£7,594	29/09/2022	This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-02.02.2022-9499
National Lottery Community Fund - Alleviating homelessness in the local community
£10,000	24/06/2022	The funding will be used to fund a one day specialist Housing Caseworker that will provide casework and advocacy to help obtain and preserve accommodation for vulnerable adults families. This will ....more The funding will be used to fund a one day specialist Housing Caseworker that will provide casework and advocacy to help obtain and preserve accommodation for vulnerable adults families. This will include those disadvantaged and homeless and include low income physically/mental health issues disabled single parents BAME communities. It will help with accommodation but also to improve skills to better manage their money and tenancy supporting with budgets repayment plans and entitlements.
Trust for London - Paddington Law Centre
£101,250	05/05/2022	The funding is for the salary and overhead costs of a part-time Employment caseworker for two years, providing free, specialist, advice, casework and Employment Tribunal advocacy to low paid, ....more The funding is for the salary and overhead costs of a part-time Employment caseworker for two years, providing free, specialist, advice, casework and Employment Tribunal advocacy to low paid, marginalised workers, aimed at addressing inequality issues at work, protecting workers' rights, securing correct pay/benefits, and obtaining redress/compensation on wrongful termination.
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£50,000	11/08/2021	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 COVID34
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Paddington Law Centre
£20,000	01/07/2021	An unrestricted grant of £20,000. Paddington Law Centre provides specialist legal advice across housing, welfare and employment law.
Trust for London - Paddington Law Centre
£8,000	13/05/2020 9	The funding is for new IT equipment and salaries of a specialist welfare rights worker and an employment worker to undertake casework/representation work with people affected by COVID19 for a nine ....more The funding is for new IT equipment and salaries of a specialist welfare rights worker and an employment worker to undertake casework/representation work with people affected by COVID19 for a nine month period. The benificiaries will be low paid workers, low skilled migrants working in the gig sector and many on zero hour contracts as well as people people in temporary accommodation. (London Community Response grant).
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Paddington Law Centre
£17,628	01/05/2020	The funding is for (i) capital purchases to facilitate remote/ digital service delivery to allow us to support vulnerable people who are shielding and retain experienced (10+ years at the centre) ....more The funding is for (i) capital purchases to facilitate remote/ digital service delivery to allow us to support vulnerable people who are shielding and retain experienced (10+ years at the centre) staff and (ii) project costs for advising/representing vulnerable people experiencing intensified income/tenancy/ employment related problems because of the pandemic.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Paddington Law Centre
£13,375	09/04/2020	A one-off, unrestricted grant of £13,375, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisation’s current grant. COVID19
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Paddington Law Centre
£107,250	26/09/2019 24	£107,250 over two further and final years (£53,500; £53,750) for the salary on on-costs of a part-time Housing Caseworker (2.5dpw), a Welfare Rights Worker (2dpw), and a Project Co-ordinator ....more £107,250 over two further and final years (£53,500; £53,750) for the salary on on-costs of a part-time Housing Caseworker (2.5dpw), a Welfare Rights Worker (2dpw), and a Project Co-ordinator (1dpw); plus, associated running costs.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Paddington Law Centre
£20,000	27/06/2019	An unrestricted grant of £20,000. Paddington Law Centre provides free legal advice and representation, and other services including debt advice, employment and housing.
Trust for London - Paddington Law Centre
£120,000	28/02/2019 36	The funding is for the salary and overhead costs of a part-time Employment caseworker for three years, providing free, specialist advice, casework and Employment Tribunal advocacy to low paid, ....more The funding is for the salary and overhead costs of a part-time Employment caseworker for three years, providing free, specialist advice, casework and Employment Tribunal advocacy to low paid, marginalised workers, aimed at addressing inequality issues at work, protecting workers' rights, securing correct pay/benefits, and obtaining redress/compensation on wrongful terminations.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Paddington Law Centre
£89,000	07/09/2017 36	towards three years' running costs of a project providing support and welfare advice to disabled people in the London Borough of Westminster and surrounding areas
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Paddington Law Centre
£165,300	24/05/2016 36	£165,300 over three years (£54,200; £55,100; £56,000) for the salary and on-cost of a part-time Housing Caseworker a Welfare Rights Worker and a Project co-ordinator; plus associated running ....more £165,300 over three years (£54,200; £55,100; £56,000) for the salary and on-cost of a part-time Housing Caseworker a Welfare Rights Worker and a Project co-ordinator; plus associated running costs.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Paddington Law Centre
£28,300	29/05/2014	Paddington Law Centre provides free legal advice on housing, welfare rights and employment in the North of Westminster. It is seeking funding for an additional welfare rights caseworker
National Lottery Community Fund - Sound Advice
£222,034	16/05/2013 48	A new project from Paddington Law Centre which aims to reach those most in need following the changes to the welfare benefits system, namely households on low incomes and disabled people who are at ....more A new project from Paddington Law Centre which aims to reach those most in need following the changes to the welfare benefits system, namely households on low incomes and disabled people who are at risk of losing their homes and having their incomes reduced in Westminster and neighbouring London boroughs. The project will offer one-to-one coaching and guidance sessions and will inform them how they may be affected or what they need to do to resolve issues they may face.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 42-77

ATHINA MOUZAKITOU Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Global Programme Manager

HARMONY FITZGERALD Appointed: 2001, Occupation: Caseworker

JEMIMA SYBIL CATHERINE JOLL Appointed: 2024, Occupation: None

LAURA LOUISE HASTIE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Senior Digital Marketing Officer, Other trusteeship: LAW CENTRES FEDERATION,

MIRIAM CELINA SMITH-IHIONVIEN Appointed: 2024, Occupation: London Victim Witness Service Volunteer

PETER PURTON (Chair) Appointed: 2002, Occupation: Trade Union, Other trusteeship: CASTLE STUDIES TRUST,

RUTH BUSH Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Local Councillor

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 24/08/1988, number: 299948
Registered at Companies House on 12/02/1986, number: 01988411

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
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR13: 1 days late, AR11: 73 days late, AR09: 4 days late, AR08: 13 days late, AR07: 23 days late, AR06: 2 days late, AR05: 1 days late,

Main office

Paddington Law Centre
421 Harrow Road
London
W10 4RE

Objectives

Objects(i) To relieve poor persons (hereinafter referred to as qualifying persons) resident or working in Greater London and in particular in the North Paddington area including the postal districts of W2, W9 and the Westminster part of W10 (hereinafter referred to as the designated area) by providing such persons with legal advice, assistance, representation and services which they could not otherwise obtain because of lack of means.(ii) To advance the education of qualifying persons in relation to the law and legal issues and to make the law known and accessible to them.(iii) To advance any charitable purposes beneficial to qualifying persons and their community.

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