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Registered charity · Liverpool

Merseyside LAW Centre Limited

  • 4 trustees
  • Income £525k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool City, Sefton and more
Website
www.merseysidelawcentre.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Merseyside LAW Centre Limited
Registered
2022

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£525k£486k
  • 2024£579k£403k
  • 2023£472k£291k

Income trend, 2023 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 3% · Government grants 6%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SUFFERING AND DISTRESS AMONG PERSONS RESIDENT, STUDYING OR WORKING IN MERSEYSIDE AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS BY (A) PROVIDING THEM WITH LEGAL SERVICES WHICH THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE OBTAIN BECAUSE OF A LACK OF MEANS AND (B) EDUCATING THEM ON THEIR LEGAL RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES AND ON THE OPERATION OF THE LAW AND LEGAL SYSTEM. THE CHARITY MAY ADVANCE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS ARE BENEFICIAL FOR THE PEOPLES OF MERSEYSIDE AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS

Grants received

14 grants · £1,267,311 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.

Top funders

Most recent

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.

4 trustees on the board

7.5y median 7.5y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

3
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 4The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.

Professional services 3Business services 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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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 3 years.
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£525k 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.

7.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

13 from 10 in 2024
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.
8%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1199464
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 20 NOV 2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 23 SEP 2021
Companies House
Company number 09882302 · Active
Contact on the register
01517090504 · enquiries@merseysidelawcentre.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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