Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 12
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 23 ?

LUTON LAW CENTRE

Legal services in social welfare law, including advice, casework and representation in housing, immigration, welfare benefits and community care.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£333£298£35n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£353£300£53n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£393£310£83n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£323£302£22n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£268£263£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£261£258£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17*£344£354£-10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16*£374£357£17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15*£337£367£-29n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£441£427£14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£412£446£-34n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12*£425£418£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£453£455£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£456£460£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09*£397£394£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£374£345£29n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07*£375£370£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06*£302£316£-14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05*£312£303£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04*£293£294£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 30 years

www.lutonlawcentre.org.uk

admin@lutonlawcentre.org.uk

01582482000

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Legal & financial advice
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bedford, Buckinghamshire, Central Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Luton,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
The Legal Education Foundation£177,575
Three Guineas Trust£150,000
Access to Justice Foundation£64,200
AB Charitable Trust£20,000
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation£7,263
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Legal Education Foundation - JFF Host 2024
£95,416 23/05/2024
A grant to Luton Law Centre to fund one fellow trainee placement as part of cohort 11.
Three Guineas Trust - Increased staffing hours and capacity within the community care legal advice service.
£150,000 27/03/2024
Increased staffing hours and capacity within the community care legal advice service.
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£60,000 09/08/2021
A flexible grant as part of wave 2 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID90
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Luton Law Centre
£20,000 01/07/2021
An unrestricted grant of £20,000. Luton Law Centre provides legal advice, casework and representation in housing, immigration and asylum, community care and discrimination
The Legal Education Foundation - JFF Host 2021
£82,159 24/03/2021
A grant to Luton Law Centre to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 8.
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£4,200 19/10/2020
A flexible grant as part of wave 1 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID19
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Stream 2 - Core Costs
£7,263 15/04/2020
3
Grant to Luton Law Centre
AB Charitable Trust - Luton advice services co-location project
£10,000 26/06/2015
£10,000 towards co-location and integration of services with Luton Rights and CAB
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 35-70
  • CLAIRE MELISSA GOODWIN Appointed: 2024, Occupation: General Counsel (Solicitor Advocate)
  • FIONA CARFRAE (Chair) Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Legal Counsel
  • JEINSEN LAM Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Solicitor
  • LAURENCE LANE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Accountant
  • NASEEM SHAH Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Director
  • SAMEERA SALEEM Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Councillor
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 05/08/1994, number: 1039998
  • Registered at Companies House on 09/03/1994, number: 02906544
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Financial Conduct Authority
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR17: 1 days late, AR16: 2 days late, AR15: 2 days late, AR12: 15 days late, AR09: 14 days late, AR07: 21 days late, AR06: 0 days late, AR05: 2 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

Luton Law Centre
15 New Bedford Road
LUTON
LU1 1SA

Objectives

1) TO RELIEVE POOR PERSONS RESIDENT OR WORKING IN A DESIGNATED AREA (QUALIFYING PERSONS) BY PROVIDING LEGAL ADVICE, ASSISTANCE, REPRESENTATION AND SERVICES WHICH THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE OBTAIN THROUGH LACK OF MEANS. 2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF QUALIFYING PERSONS IN RELATION TO THE LAW AND LEGAL ISSUES AND TO MAKE THE LAW KNOWN AND ACCESSIBLE TO THEM. 3) TO ADVANCE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY FOR QUALIFYING PERSONS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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