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Registered charity · London

The Legal Advice Centre(University House)

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £1.1m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Throughout London
Website
www.legaladvicecentre.london (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Legal Advice Centre (University House)
Registered
1997

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.1m£922k
  • 2024£927k£874k
  • 2023£775k£677k
Earlier years
  • 2022£711k£709k
  • 2021£731k£591k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

I) TO RELIEVE POVERTY BY PROVIDING LEGAL ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE TO NEEDY PERSONS IN THE EAST END OF LONDON (NAMELY THE LONDON BOROUGH OF TOWER HAMLETS AND THE AREAS OF HACKNEY AND STOKE NEWINGTON OR ELSEWHERE WITHIN ENGLAND AND WALES), AND IN THE FURTHERANCE OF THIS OBJECT AND ANCILLARY THERETO TO INSTITUTE CONDUCT AND DEFEND ANY PROCEEDINGS BEFORE ANY COURT OR TRIBUNAL OR FOR ANY PURPOSES OR IN ANY OTHER FORUM IN WHICH LEGAL ADVICE OR REPRESENTATION MAY BE REQUIRED ON BEHALF OF PERSONS SEEKING THE ASSISTANCE OF THE CHARITY; AND (II) FOR THAT PURPOSE TO CARRY ON THE ACTIVITIES HITHERTO CARRIED ON BY THE CHARITABLE TRUST COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE LEGAL ADVICE CENTRE (UNIVERSITY HOUSE) AND TO RECEIVE SUCH ASSETS AS MAY BE MADE OVER TO IT BY SUCH CHARITABLE TRUST AS MAY BE APPROPRIATE ON SUCH TERMS AS THE TRUSTEES OF THE CHARITY SHALL THINK FIT.

Grants received

27 grants · £1,954,436 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.

12 trustees on the board

8y median 7.5y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

12
company-linked trustees

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

The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 12

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 12Arts and leisure 1Education 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together
  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£1.1m 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.

7.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.8 in 2021

18 from 15 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1061182
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 25 FEBRUARY 1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06 FEB 2018
Companies House
Company number 03324062 · Active
Contact on the register
02089804205 · admin@legaladvicecentre.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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