The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 13th September 2026

Lawyers Without Borders UK Limited

Registered charity 1136400 Registered since 2010

Operates: Throughout England And Wales, Kenya, Liberia, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, United States, Argentina, Paraguay

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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.

4 trustees on the board

6.8y median 6y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

4
company-linked trustees

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

Economic/community Development/employment 4Education/training 4Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 4

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Public administration 4

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  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£446 latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024

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.lwob.org.uk
Phone03000 30 5962
AddressVistra Uk Ltd, Suite 1, 7th Floor, 50 Broadway, LONDON, SW1H 0BL

Finances

£456 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£9,952£4,154
2022£357£2,247
2023£725£982
2024£446£3,593
2025£456£4,184

What it does

What

Education/trainingEconomic/community Development/employmentHuman Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity

Who

Children/young PeopleOther Charities Or Voluntary BodiesThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides Human ResourcesProvides Advocacy/advice/informationSponsors Or Undertakes ResearchActs As An Umbrella Or Resource Body

Charitable objects

1 TO PROMOTE THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE AND PROPER ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAW FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BYA UNDERTAKING RESEARCH INTO THE LAW AND LEGAL PROCESS IN SUCH COUNTRIES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DETERMINE, AND PUBLISHING THE USEFUL RESULTSB PROMOTING EDUCATION AND TRAINING INTO THE LAW AND LEGAL PROCESS OF SUCH COUNTRIES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DETERMINEC ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF LEGAL SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS WHO BY REASON OF THEIR INADEQUATE MEANS WOULD NOT OTHERWISE HAVE ACCESS TO SUCH SERVICESD THE PROVISION OF PRO BONO LEGAL SERVICES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT2 TO PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS (AS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS) THROUGHOUT THE WORLD BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANSA EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTSB PROVIDING TECHNICAL ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT AND OTHERS ON HUMAN RIGHTS MATTERS

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 27 NOVEMBER 2003 AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 12 JANUARY 2010 AND SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 4 JUNE 2010

Trustees (4)

4trustees
49median age
0aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Lawyers Without Borders UK Limited · 04978436 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 27/11/2003

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (0)

No charities share a trustee (from current data).

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