Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 11

No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3

Grant maker support: +11

Overall GiG Score: 17

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

Established: 30 years

www.lutonlawcentre.org.uk

admin@lutonlawcentre.org.uk

01582482000

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23		£333	£298	£35	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/22		£353	£300	£53	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1
31/03/21		£393	£310	£83	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1
31/03/20		£323	£302	£22	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
31/03/19		£268	£263	£5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	4
31/03/18		£261	£258	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	*	£344	£354	£-10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	*	£374	£357	£17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	*	£337	£367	£-29	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£441	£427	£14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£412	£446	£-34	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	*	£425	£418	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£453	£455	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£456	£460	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	*	£397	£394	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£374	£345	£29	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	*	£375	£370	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	*	£302	£316	£-14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£312	£303	£9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	*	£293	£294	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

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 works here?

Unknown number of employees
2 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years

Three Guineas Trust	£150,000
The Legal Education Foundation	£82,159
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
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: 34-69

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

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