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Registered charity · London

Tower Hamlets LAW Centre

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £675k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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

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About

What it does
Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.thlc.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Tower Hamlets LAW Centre
Registered
1983

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£675k£680k
  • 2024£614k£616k
  • 2023£625k£623k
Earlier years
  • 2022£637k£567k
  • 2021£555k£549k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 22% · Government grants 16%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. THE ACQUISITION OF THE UNDERTAKING AND ASSETS OF THE UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATION KNOWN AS THE TOWER HAMLETS LAW CENTRE; 2. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AMONGST PERSONS RESIDENT OR WORKING IN GREATER LONDON AND IN PARTICULAR THE LONDON BOROUGH OF TOWER HAMLETS (HEREINAFTER CALLED "THE BENEFIT AREA") BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH LEGAL SERVICES WHICH THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE OBTAIN OR WHICH IT WOULD NOT BE REASONABLY PRACTICABLE OR APPROPRIATE TO OBTAIN ELSEWHERE; 3. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AMONGST PERSONS RESIDENT OR WORKING IN THE BENEFIT AREA; 4. THE ADVANCEMENT OF SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS ARE BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY FOR PERSONS RESIDENT OR WORKING IN THE BENEFIT AREA.

Grants received

34 grants · £2,144,350 total

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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.

6 trustees on the board

4.5y median 4y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

3
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 6Economic/community Development/employment 6The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 6

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 4

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£675k 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.

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

16 from 17 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.
38%
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
287282
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 4TH MAY 1983 AS AMENDED 20TH NOVEMBER 1988 AND 2ND JULY 1989 as amended on 15 Dec 2016
Companies House
Company number 01720518 · Active
Contact on the register
02075384909 · info@thlc.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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