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Hackney Community LAW Centre

Registered charity 1016171 Registered since 1993

Operates: Hackney

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Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

6 trustees on the board

8.8y median 9y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (2)

2
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Education/training 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 3Construction 1Health and social care 1

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£697k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

31.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 25.5 in 2021

10 from 11 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
64%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.hclc.org.uk
Emailadmin@hclc.org.uk
Phone02089855236
AddressHackney Law Centre, 8 Lower Clapton Road, London, E5 0PD

Finances

£696,856 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£872,845£509,000
2022£622,334£530,001
2023£593,819£559,693
2024£684,721£498,465
2025£696,856£580,991

What it does

What

Education/trainingThe Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

Who

Other Charities Or Voluntary BodiesOther Defined GroupsThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides Advocacy/advice/informationActs As An Umbrella Or Resource Body

Charitable objects

The objects (the Objects) of the Charity are: 3.1.1 to relieve the poverty of persons who are resident, working or studying in the London Borough of Hackney and Greater London (the designated area), with priority to be given to those resident, working or studying in the London Borough of Hackney by providing such persons, and in exceptional circumstances, persons outside the designated area, with legal services which they could not otherwise obtain due to lack of means; 3.1.2 to advance the education of persons resident, working or studying in the London Borough of Hackney;3.1.3 to advance any charitable purposes beneficial to the community for persons resident, working or studying in the London Borough of Hackney.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 12TH NOVEMBER 1991, AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS PASSED 24TH NOVEMBER 1992 AND 15 MARCH 2004 as amended on 12 Apr 2024 as amended on 12 Apr 2024

Trustees (6)

6trustees
48median age
2aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Hackney Community LAW Centre · 02662363 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 12/11/1991

5 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

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