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Hackney Community LAW Centre

Hackney Community LAW Centre is a registered charity (number 1016171) based in London, governed by 6 trustees and chaired by IAN Rathbone. Latest income £697k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

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,...

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £697k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Hackney
Website
www.hclc.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Hackney Community LAW Centre
Registered
1993

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£697k£581k
  • 2024£685k£498k
  • 2023£594k£560k
Earlier years
  • 2022£622k£530k
  • 2021£873k£509k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 43% · Government grants 21%. From the charity's annual return.

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.

Grants received

14 grants · £1,871,358 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

Board analysis

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

14.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (1)

6
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 6The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 6Arts/culture/heritage/science 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.

Professional services 6Arts and leisure 3Construction 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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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.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1016171
Status
Registered
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
Companies House
Company number 02662363 · Active
Contact on the register
02089855236 · admin@hclc.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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