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Coram Children's Legal Centre Limited

Coram Children's Legal Centre Limited is a registered charity (number 281222) based in London, governed by 7 trustees and chaired by Her Honour Judge Celia Dawson since 2019. Latest income £4.2m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £4.2m (2025)

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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, Education/training
Where
Hungary, Kazakhstan, Laos, Libya and more
Website
www.childrenslegalcentre.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Coram Children's Legal Centre Limited
Registered
1980

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.2m£4.2m
  • 2024£4.5m£4.3m
  • 2023£4.1m£4.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.6m£3.4m
  • 2021£3.4m£3.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 9% · Government grants 8%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

A. FOR THE BENEFIT OF CHILDREN WHO ARE IN NEED OF CARE AND PROTECTION BY THE PROVISION OF LEGAL ADVICE, ASSISTANCE AND OTHER LEGAL SERVICES FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH CHILDREN AS AFORESAID BY REASON OF THEIR OWN CIRCUMSTANCES OR BECAUSE OF THE POVERTY OF THEIR PARENTS, GUARDIANS, FOSTER PARENTS OR THOSE OTHERWISE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR CARE AND PROTECTION. B. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC ON ALL ASPECTS OF THE LAW PERTAINING TO CHILDREN. C. TO PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO THE UPBRINGING, EDUCATION, CARE AND PROTECTION OF CHILDREN PROVIDED THAT THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH ARE DISSEMINATED.

Grants received

36 grants · £7,538,724 total

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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.

7 trustees on the board

3.9y median 3y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (3)

6
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 6General Charitable Purposes 6The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 2Accommodation/housing 1Disability 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Professional services 9Health and social care 2Tech and media 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£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.

5.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 5.9 in 2021

88 from 69 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.
16%
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
281222
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 07/10/1980AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 15/06/2012
Companies House
Company number 01520787 · Active
Contact on the register
01206714650 · info@coramclc.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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