ISLAND ADVICE CENTRE

Registered charity 1076857 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

IAC is an independent advice service that provides support and guidance on statutory rights and entitlement to local residents. Areas of advice include; welfare rights, housing, debt. Advice is given from basic level up to specialist casework. In addition the organisation provides training and volunteering opportunities to individuals interested in developing advice skills.

Objects

TO RELIEVE POVERTY IN THE AREA KNOWN AS THE ISLE OF DOGS AND NEARBY AREAS BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN THE FIELD OF WELFARE AND INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS.

Area of benefit: LONDON BOROUGH OF TOWER HAMLET

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated at a net deficit of £14,958 for the year ended 31 March 2025. The trustees report that unrestricted reserves stood at £110,898, which is above their stated policy target of £37,467, and they are satisfied that sufficient funding is in place to cover restricted fund deficits.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kingston Burrowes Audit Ltd. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 07/02/2024, 7 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• KATHERINE ELAINE WILSONchair
• CHRIS PARSONS
• Cathy Weir
• Godline SINGH
• Hasan Kawsar Chowdhury
• SHABNAM SHARMIN
• STEVEN LAKE
• Stephanie Dickinson
• THOMAS SIGGERS

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Tower Hamlets

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ADVICE UK.

• ADVICE UK income £6.0m
• BRECON ADVICE CENTRE income £35k
• KIRKLEES CITIZENS ADVICE AND LAW CENTRE income £1.7m
• COVENTRY INDEPENDENT ADVICE SERVICE income £351k
• CITIZENS ADVICE REIGATE AND BANSTEAD LIMITED income £487k
• ISLE OF WIGHT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £712k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.