The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

Community Advice and LAW Service LTD

Registered charity 1087214 Registered since 2001

Operates: Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicester City, Rutland

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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.

7 trustees on the board

5.4y median 3y
average tenure
18y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

7
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 7

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 7Other services 2Business services 1

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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£4.2m 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.

1.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 0.5 in 2021

42 from 38 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.
88%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

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.

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.leicesterlawcentre.org.uk
Emailenquiries@leicesterlawcentre.org.uk
Phone01162421120
AddressEpic House, 1 Lower Hill Street, LEICESTER, LE1 3SH

Finances

£4,171,978 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£4,128,190£3,995,936
2022£4,253,912£4,113,217
2023£4,073,216£4,041,340
2024£4,361,663£4,090,390
2025£4,171,978£4,151,129

What it does

What

The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Provides Advocacy/advice/information

Charitable objects

3.1 To relieve persons who are in conditions of need, hardship or distress and who are resident in England and Wales, hereinafter referred to as the “area of benefit”, through the provision of legal and related advice, assistance and representation.3.2 To advance the education of the public by the improvement and diffusion of knowledge of the law and the practice of the law and the administration of justice, having regard especially to those areas of the law which are of particular concern to people experiencing financial hardship or other forms of distress in the area of benefit.3.3 The advancement of such other charitable purposes as are beneficial to the community for persons resident in the area of benefit.3.4 In meeting the objects set out at (3.1), (3.2) and (3.3) above always to satisfy the public benefit requirement under the Charities Act 2011.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 25/10/2000AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 29/03/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/01/2012 as amended on 30 Nov 2022 as amended on 09 Dec 2024

Trustees (7)

7trustees
59median age
2aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Community Advice and LAW Service LTD · 04096574 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 25/10/2000

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (0)

No charities share a trustee (from current data).

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