Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 13
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +13
Overall GiG Score: 22 ?

HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM COMMUNITY LAW CENTRE LIMITED

Hammersmith and Fulham Law Centre has worked on the front line of advice needs for 39 years. We have legal aid contracts in housing, welfare benefits, immigration & asylum and prioritise helping those who are most vulnerable and disadvantaged. We give free legal advice and support on a range of housing issues to people in H&F and run the duty possession desk 2 days a week at our local County Court
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 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

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£474£395£79n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£444£460£-17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£690£470£221£369£399£39910.2120
31/03/20£414£366£48n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£357£333£23n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£458£351£107n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£351£346£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£378£368£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£488£457£31n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£534£495£39£9£-435£-435-10.590
31/03/13£548£578£-30£6£-204£-204-4.290
31/03/12*£553£558£-5£6£-272£-272-5.8110
31/03/11£641£630£11£6£-30£-30-0.6140
31/03/10£694£726£-32£6£-1,279£-1,279-21.1140
31/03/09£634£711£-77£7£-697£-697-11.8120
31/03/08£739£797£-59£7£-678£-678-10.2120
31/03/07*£771£812£-41£5£-811£-811-12140
31/03/06£833£792£41n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£741£818£-77n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04*£626£766£-140n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Balance Sheet History
Established: 41 years
(45 years as a company)

www.hflaw.org.uk

hflaw@hflaw.org.uk

020 3880 1727

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Other facilities management and maintenance
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Hammersmith And Fulham,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Access to Justice Foundation£222,172
Trust for London£189,650
City Bridge Trust£134,700
The Legal Education Foundation£111,500
AB Charitable Trust£100,000
London Legal Support Trust£30,000
The London Community Foundation£25,022
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Hammersmith & Fulham Law Centre
£27,500 14/03/2024
An unrestricted grant of £27,500 (Year 3 of 3 years). Hammersmith and Fulham Law Centre provides legal advice and representation in asylum, immigration, housing, family, employment and social ....more
London Legal Support Trust - Centres of Excellence 2023
£10,000 28/12/2023
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
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Hammersmith & Fulham Law Centre
£27,500 22/03/2023
An unrestricted grant of £27,500 (This grant is renewable - year 2 of up to 3 years)This grant includes a 10% cost of living uplift. Hammersmith and Fulham Law Centre provides legal advice and ....more
London Legal Support Trust - Centres of Excellence 2022
£10,000 22/12/2022
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
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.
Trust for London - Hammersmith and Fulham Community Law Centre
£14,650 29/09/2022
This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-05.10.2021-9352
Access to Justice Foundation - Help Accessing Legal Support (HALS)
£112,500 13/09/2022
Help Accessing Legal Support (HALS) is a programme of The Access to Justice Foundation with the Ministry of Justice. We are working with organisations to sustain and improve access to early social ....more
The Legal Education Foundation - JFF Host 2022
£111,500 15/06/2022
A grant to Hammersmith & Fulham Law Centre to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 9.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Hammersmith and Fulham Law Centre
£119,700 17/05/2022
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£119,700 for a further and final two years (£58,800, £60,900) for a f/t solicitor and contribution to organisational overheads to develop an Anti-Child Poverty Unit.
Trust for London - Hammersmith and Fulham Community Law Centre
£175,000 09/02/2022
The funding is for the continuation of an Employment Rights Project. The project has been successfully providing specialist employment law advice, casework and representation for low-income ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Hammersmith & Fulham Law Centre
£25,000 20/01/2022
An unrestricted grant of £25,000 per year for 3 years (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). Hammersmith and Fulham Law Centre provides legal advice and representation in asylum, ....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
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Hammersmith & Fulham Law Centre
£20,000 08/10/2020
An unrestricted grant of £20,000. Hammersmith and Fulham Law Centre provides legal advice and representation in asylum, immigration, housing, family, employment and social welfare.
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£95,000 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
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Hammersmith and Fulham Community Law Centre
£25,022 21/07/2020
To redeploy two members of our staff, who are legal aid housing solicitors, to respond to a changed need in our service delivery. We have an increased need to advise on non-legal aid housing advice, ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Hammersmith and Fulham Law Centre
£15,000 09/04/2020
A one-off, unrestricted grant of £15,000, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisation’s current grant. COVID19
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Hammersmith & Fulham Law Centre
£10,000 24/01/2019
£10,000 towards core costs. Hammersmith & Fulham Law Centre supports vulnerable groups by providing legal advice and representation in court, including on housing and immigration. They also ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Hammersmith and Fulham Law Centre
£183,600 14/03/2018
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£183,600 over three years (£59,400, £61,200, £63,000) for a f/t solicitor and contribution to organisational overheads to develop an Anti Child Poverty Unit, with funding released on receipt of ....more
AB Charitable Trust - Housing, human rights, immigration legal advice
£15,000 26/04/2016
£15,000 towards core costs
AB Charitable Trust - accessible legal advice for vulnerable groups
£10,000 09/07/2013
£10,000 towards core costs of an immigration lawyer
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Hammersmith and Fulham Community Law Centre
£32,800 26/04/2013
This charity provides free legal advice on a range of issues including specialist advice on community care, housing and immigration. This funding will support the continuation of its immigration ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Hammersmith and Fulham Advice Station
£281,722 25/04/2013
24
The aim of this new project is to bring all principal advice providers in the Hammersmith and Fulham area to deliver an advice station. It will provide three pop up advice shops in W6, W12 and ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Hammersmith and Fulham Community Law Centre
£67,790 16/12/2009
24
Towards Core costs Towards the salary and costs of a part-time immigration caseworker for child asylum seekers plus the fees of policy promotion and dissemination.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 40-75
  • ANTHONY MARTIN Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Solicitor
  • BARBARA BEESE Appointed: 2022
  • CHAYA INTURI Appointed: 2023, Occupation: It Professional
  • JOANNA PATRICIA KENNEDY Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Retired
  • JOHN DURAND Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Accountant
  • KAREN TARN Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Trustee
  • LAURA JANES Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Solicitor
  • MRS MARJORY CLARK, Occupation: Adult Education Lecturer
  • TUSHAR SINGH Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Employment Lawyer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 15/07/1983, number: 287462
  • Registered at Companies House on 27/02/1979, number: 01417251
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Financial Conduct Authority
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR12: 1 days late, AR07: 0 days late, AR04: 124 days late,
Main office

Hammersmith and Fulham Law Centre
1st Floor
Hammersmith Library
Shepherds Bush Road
Hammersmith

Objectives

(1) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY SUFFERING AND DISTRESS AMONG PERSONS RESIDENT OR WORKING IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM; (2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF PERSONS RESIDENT OR WORKING IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM; (3) THE ADVANCEMENT OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL FOR THE PERSONS RESIDENT OR WORKING IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LONDON BOROUGH OF HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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