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Registered charity · London

The Legal Education Foundation

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £6.3m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 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
Education/training
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
lef.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Legal Education Foundation
Registered
1976

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£6.3m£20m
  • 2024£10m£16m
  • 2023£12m£14m
Earlier years
  • 2022£5.2m£15m
  • 2021£5.3m£11m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2023: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECT FOR WHICH THE FOUNDATION IS CONSTITUTED IS TO PROMOTE THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEGAL EDUCATION AND THE STUDY OF LAW IN ALL ITS BRANCHES, AND THE SOUND DEVELOPMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF LAW

Grants received

27 grants · £3,598,829 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

Grants given

253 grants · £37,647,222 total

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Top recipients

Most recent

Board analysis for researchers

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.

9 trustees on the board

2.8y median 2y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (1)

4
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 9General Charitable Purposes 1Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 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.

Health and social care 2Other services 2Professional services 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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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£6.3m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

120.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months

26 from 18 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
271297
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER GRANTED 05/12/1975AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 26/10/1988AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 17/12/1997AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 14/06/2000AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 30/05/2012AS AMENDED ON 24/09/2012AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 28 APR 2021 And Royal Charter granted on 05 Feb 2025as amended by an Order in Council on 05 Feb 2025
Companies House
Company number RC000126 · Active
Contact on the register
02030055697 · secretary@lef.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
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