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Registered charity · Norwich

Norfolk Community LAW Service Limited

Norfolk Community LAW Service Limited is a registered charity (number 1069066) based in Norwich, governed by 12 trustees. Latest income £1.4m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as Norfolk Community Law Service (Charity Commission)

• 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...

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £1.4m (2025)
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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
Where
Norfolk
Website
www.ncls.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Norfolk Community LAW Service LTD
Registered
1998

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.4m£1.4m
  • 2024£1.4m£1.1m
  • 2023£1.0m£910k
Earlier years
  • 2022£890k£837k
  • 2021£810k£700k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 39%. From the charity's annual return.

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.

Grants received

41 grants · £3,394,071 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.

3.1y median 2y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.4y
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.

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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£1.4m 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1069066
Status
Registered
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
Companies House
Company number 03524607 · Active
Contact on the register
01603496623 · info@ncls.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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