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Registered charity · Bristol

Bristol LAW Centre

1. Objects1.1 The Objects of the Charity are: (a) The relief of financial hardship and other forms of distress in the designated area through the provision of legal and other advisory representation and information services to people who could not...

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £1.5m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
Where
Somerset, North Somerset, Bath And North East Somerset, South Gloucestershire and more
Website
www.bristollawcentre.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Bristol LAW Centre
Registered
1996

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.5m£1.2m
  • 2024£1.3m£1.3m
  • 2023£1.0m£986k
Earlier years
  • 2022£897k£838k
  • 2021£1.1m£1.0m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 29% · Government grants 23%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. Objects1.1 The Objects of the Charity are: (a) The relief of financial hardship and other forms of distress in the designated area through the provision of legal and other advisory representation and information services to people who could not otherwise obtain them through lack of means(b) The advancement of education among people resident or working in the designated area in respect of the law and the administration of justice, having regard especially to those areas of law which are of particular concern to people experiencing financial hardship or other forms of distress.(c) The advancement of such other charitable purposes as are beneficial to the community for persons resident or working in the designated area1.2 This provision may be amended by special resolution but only with the prior written consent of the Commission.

Grants received

52 grants · £4,383,177 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.

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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.

10 trustees on the board

1.7y median 1.5y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

9
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 10Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 10The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 10

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 10Health and social care 2Education 1

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£1.5m 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.

3.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.5 in 2021

26 from 27 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.
51%
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
1059022
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 24/01/1986AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05/10/1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/11/2004NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 02/11/2010AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 22/11/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02/07/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12/11/2013 AS AMENDED ON 04 APR 2019 AS AMENDED ON 13 NOV 2018AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 20 APR 2019 as amended on 10 Feb 2020
Companies House
Company number 01982371 · Active
Contact on the register
01179248662 · reception@bristollawcentre.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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