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Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 4
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 5 ?

L A G EDUCATION AND SERVICE TRUST LIMITED

LAG Education and Service Trust Limited (more commonly known as LAG), is a national charity, which promotes equal access to justice. It achieves its objectives by publishing legal books and its monthly magazine Legal Action plus running training courses. Its main customers are lawyers and publicly funded legal services.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile recently
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
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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
31/12/23£424£457£-34n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/22£489£529£-40n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/21£569£565£4£0£112£1092.362
31/12/20£539£506£33£0£109£761.860
31/12/19£620£564£56£1£76£601.370
31/12/18£607£633£-27£1£20£-20-0.480
31/12/17£681£658£22£1£47£-19-0.390
31/12/16£647£634£13£1£25£-19-0.480
31/12/15£643£683£-41£46£12£10100
31/12/14£787£728£59£50£52£3090
31/12/13£714£743£-29£50£-7£-55-0.990
31/12/12£845£836£9£51£22£-71-190
31/12/11£865£854£10£53£13£-27-0.490
31/12/10£866£834£32£55£3£2090
31/12/09£813£845£-33£49£-29£-34-0.590
31/12/08£789£849£-59£54£4£-5-0.1100
31/12/07?£1,197£1,167£30£71£63£280.3110
30/09/06£879£855£24n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/05£894£933£-39n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/04£947£969£-23n/an/an/an/an/an/a
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Balance Sheet History
Established: 51 years

www.lag.org.uk

lag@lag.org.uk

02078332931

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Provides financial or material assistance
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
The Legal Education Foundation - Short term support for LAG to maintain stability and develop its strategy
£50,000 11/11/2020
Support to develop a new strategy, adapting to new challenges including the impact of COVID-19.
Trust for London - Legal Action Group
£7,905 09/06/2020
3
The funding is for funds to cover LAG staff working from home and resource to put eight of our social welfare books online: Legal Aid Handbook 2020/21, Housing Law Handbook, Community Care, Employment Law, Adult Social Care Law, Housing Conditions, ....more
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Low Commission- post election work
£24,000 25/03/2015
12
To enable the Low Commisson (a campaign on the provision of social welfare advice) to complete the final stage of its work
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Low Influencing Project
£24,800 28/03/2014
Low Influencing Project
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Legal Action Group
£20,000 12/02/2013
Towards the costs of the Low Commission examining the future of advice and legal support.
Barrow Cadbury Trust - The Justice for All Commission
£16,000 17/07/2012
The Justice for All Commission

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 34-81
  • ADRIANO SANTIAGO ALEXANDER MORAES Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Chartered Accountant
  • ALASTAIR LOGAN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Cab Adviser
  • AMANDA LOUISE GROVES Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Solicitor
  • JONATHAN SIMON ROBINS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: University Lecturer
  • JULIAN ALLEN Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Small Residential Landlord
  • KATRINA CROSSLEY Appointed: 2023
  • LISA LINDS Appointed: 2022
  • OLUMIDE ADISA Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Senior Researcher/Academic
  • ROSALIND BRAGG Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director Of A Charity
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/06/1973, number: 265703
  • Registered at Companies House on 08/02/1973, number: 01095065
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
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
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Main office

2nd Floor
Gatehouse Chambers
1 Lady Hale Gate
London
WC1X 8BS

Objectives

TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE LAW IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND SECONDLY TO RELIEVE POOR PERSONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM BY PROMOTING AND ASSISTING WITH THE PROVISION OF LEGAL SERVICES WHICH WOULD NOT OTHERWISE BE AVAILABLE TO THEM THROUGH LACK OF MEANS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNITED KINGDOM

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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