ISLINGTON PEOPLE'S RIGHTS

Registered charity 1077688 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as IPR

The principal objects of the charity are the promotion of the relief of persons resident in or around the London Borough of Islington in need or in distress by reason of poverty, and the advancement of the education of such people in the fields of welfare rights and debt.

Objects

(A) TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF PERSONS RESIDENT, WORKING OR STUDYING IN OR AROUND THE LONDON BOROUGH OF ISLINGTON BY REASON OF POVERTY. (B) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF PERSONS RESIDENT, WORKING OR STUDYING IN OR AROUND THE LONDON BOROUGH OF ISLINGTON IN THE FIELD OF WELFARE RIGHT AND DEBT.

Area of benefit: LONDON BOROUGH OF ISLINGTON

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a small deficit of £1,523 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £163,649. The trustees confirm that these reserves remain above the stated policy target of covering three months of budget expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• 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
• 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

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

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (67% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID MOOREchair
• BAHAR CHOUDHARY
• David James Alexander Amos
• HENRIETTA COOKE
• JOANNA GIVENS
• Jade Anya Pallister
• OMOTOYOSI AKINFEMIWA
• Rona Lisa Topaz
• Saiqa Pandor · trustee of 1 other charity
• Tiong An Chua

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

Operates in: Barnet · Camden · City Of London · City Of Westminster · Enfield · Hackney · Haringey · Islington

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with IRWIN MITCHELL CHARITIES FOUNDATION.

• IRWIN MITCHELL CHARITIES FOUNDATION income £722k
• WALLICH-CLIFFORD COMMUNITY income £20.7m
• POVERTY CONCERN income £35k
• INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN RELIEF income £385k
• STREETS2HOMES income £332k
• THE RCJ AND ISLINGTON CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX income £3.3m

Side by side with its peers

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