Finance Score: -3

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 4

Volatile income: -3
No PartB

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

Grant maker support: +4

Overall GiG Score: 7

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 a grant maker
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:

Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

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

Financial Data ?

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
31/12/22	£489	£529	£-40	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/12/21	£569	£565	£4	£0	£112	£109	2.3	6	2
31/12/20	£539	£506	£33	£0	£109	£76	1.8	6	0
31/12/19	£620	£564	£56	£1	£76	£60	1.3	7	0
31/12/18	£607	£633	£-27	£1	£20	£-20	-0.4	8	0
31/12/17	£681	£658	£22	£1	£47	£-19	-0.3	9	0
31/12/16	£647	£634	£13	£1	£25	£-19	-0.4	8	0
31/12/15	£643	£683	£-41	£46	£12	£1	0	10	0
31/12/14	£787	£728	£59	£50	£52	£3	0	9	0
31/12/13	£714	£743	£-29	£50	£-7	£-55	-0.9	9	0
31/12/12	£845	£836	£9	£51	£22	£-71	-1	9	0
31/12/11	£865	£854	£10	£53	£13	£-27	-0.4	9	0
31/12/10	£866	£834	£32	£55	£3	£2	0	9	0
31/12/09	£813	£845	£-33	£49	£-29	£-34	-0.5	9	0
31/12/08	£789	£849	£-59	£54	£4	£-5	-0.1	10	0
31/12/07?	£1,197	£1,167	£30	£71	£63	£28	0.3	11	0
30/09/06	£879	£855	£24	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/05	£894	£933	£-39	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/04	£947	£969	£-23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 51 years

www.lag.org.uk

lag@lag.org.uk

02078332931

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Education/Training

GiG Classification

Poverty relief

How it operates

Other charitable activities
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout London,

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.

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, ....more 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, Criminal Costs and Youth Justice Law and Practice. This is in response to the COVID19 emergency. (London Community Response Grant)
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 (8)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 33-81

ADRIANO SANTIAGO ALEXANDER MORAES Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Chartered Accountant

OLUMIDE ADISA Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Senior Researcher/Academic

ALASTAIR LOGAN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Cab Adviser

AMANDA LOUISE GROVES Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Solicitor

LISA LINDS Appointed: 2022

ROSALIND BRAGG Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director Of A Charity

JONATHAN SIMON ROBINS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: University Lecturer, Other trusteeship: THE FUTURE OF JUSTICE PROJECT,

JULIAN ALLEN Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Small Residential Landlord

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

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Paying staff
Risk management

Filing Record

19 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

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