The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

Norfolk Community LAW Service Limited

Registered charity 1069066 Registered since 1998

Operates: Norfolk

Connected trustee network

The connection graph needs a free account.

This charity's record is public. The network of who else its trustees govern is compiled from the registers by us, and an account keeps it out of bulk scrapers.

Sign in, free

Find a path from this charity →

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.

3.1y median 2y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (1)

12
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 12The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 12Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 11Education/training 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.

Tech and media 13Other services 3Health and social care 2

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.

🔒 Succession forecast is a Pro feature - the board seats likely to open in the next year and the ideal next trustee. Explore Pro →

Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£1.4m latest income
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.

3.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.2 in 2021

37 from 24 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.

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.ncls.co.uk
Emailinfo@ncls.co.uk
Phone01603496623
AddressNorfolk Community Law Service, 4 Duke Street, NORWICH, NR3 3AJ

Finances

£1,365,562 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£809,559£699,844
2022£889,973£836,581
2023£1,043,274£910,380
2024£1,367,236£1,069,184
2025£1,365,562£1,372,498

What it does

What

General Charitable PurposesThe Prevention Or Relief Of PovertyHuman Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity

Who

Other Defined GroupsThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides Human ResourcesProvides ServicesProvides Advocacy/advice/informationActs As An Umbrella Or Resource Body

Charitable objects

• To identify, raise awareness of, and address the issue of access to legal services for peoplewho have limited means to pay;• To prevent and relieve poverty, sickness, distress and disadvantage by providing, but notrestricted to, a range of free legal advice, case work and representation services for thecommunity of Norfolk (the “area of benefit”) (and other areas as the Trustees in theirabsolute discretion determine from time to time);• To enhance people’s awareness of, and to empower them to understand, their rights bypromoting public legal education, having regards to those areas of law and regulation which are directed to the relief of poverty, sickness, distress or disadvantage; and• To promote such other charitable purposes as are for the benefit of the community in thearea of benefit.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 10TH MARCH 1998 AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME 10 MAY 2005 AND AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 11 JULY 2005 AND 26 APRIL 2006 AND 30 AUGUST 2006 as amended on 29 Nov 2023

Trustees (12)

12trustees
63median age
2aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Norfolk Community LAW Service LTD · 03524607 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 10/03/1998

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (1)

For recruiters

Tools for approaching charities and finding candidates - free with an account.

Create your free account ->

Report an error in this record - let us know.