LEGAL SERVICES AGENCY LTD 

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

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Legal Services Agency Ltd.
£27,000	25/01/2024	An unrestricted grant of £27,000 (Year 3 of 3 years)This grant includes an uplift. Legal Services Agency is based in Glasgow and provides legal advice and representation, including in mental health ....more An unrestricted grant of £27,000 (Year 3 of 3 years)This grant includes an uplift. Legal Services Agency is based in Glasgow and provides legal advice and representation, including in mental health and housing.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Legal Services Agency Ltd.
£20,000	21/04/2022	An unrestricted grant of £20,000 (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). Legal Services Agency is based in Glasgow and provides legal advice and representation, including in mental ....more An unrestricted grant of £20,000 (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). Legal Services Agency is based in Glasgow and provides legal advice and representation, including in mental health and housing.
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£60,000	06/08/2021	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 COVID24
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Legal Services Agency
£20,000	22/04/2021	An unrestricted grant of £20,000. Legal Services Agency provides legal advice and representation in the areas of mental health, housing, employment and criminal injuries.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£28,265	12/08/2020	NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an on-the-ground community response to the crisis; and, support local charitable organisations to mobilise volunteers to enable better targeted support in communities through empowered local groups.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Legal Services Agency Ltd
£28,265	12/08/2020	to contribute to the costs for 3 strands of work; improvement of IT infrastructure to support remote working, development of information and awareness systems and materials to ensure up to date ....more to contribute to the costs for 3 strands of work; improvement of IT infrastructure to support remote working, development of information and awareness systems and materials to ensure up to date advice and information is easily accessible through both a u
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Legal Services Agency
£20,000	23/04/2020	An unrestricted grant of £20,000. LSA provides legal advice and representation in the areas mental health, housing and criminal injuries.
Glasgow City Council - Financial Inclusion Service - LSA
£357,506	21/03/2019	The provision of financial inclusion and housing information and advice services.
Glasgow City Council - Financial Inclusion Service - LSA
£357,506	31/05/2018	The provision of financial inclusion and housing information and advice services.
Glasgow City Council - Financial Inclusion Service - LSA
£357,506	14/04/2016	The provision of financial inclusion and housing information and advice services.
Comic Relief - Women's Project, Legal Services Agency
£131,473	27/01/2016 36	For over 11 years LSA has been supporting refugee and migrant women and girls in Scotland who have suffered violence in their country of origin and / or in the UK. Around 60% of their caseload ....more For over 11 years LSA has been supporting refugee and migrant women and girls in Scotland who have suffered violence in their country of origin and / or in the UK. Around 60% of their caseload involves violence from within the UK, including domestic violence; sexual violence; trafficking; honour related violence and FGM. Alongside this around one in five women in Scotland will experience domestic violence in their lifetime and reported incidents are steadily increasing. LSA will address these issues by providing quality legal advice and support for these vulnerable women across Scotland to secure their safety and support them into happier and safer lives.

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Directors (7)

Legal constitution

• Charity registered in Scotland on 02/07/1990, number: SC017160
• Registered at Companies House on 22/03/1990, number: SC123919

Filing Record

Main office

2nd Floor, Savoy House, 140 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3DH

Objectives

The company's objects are: 4.1 To relieve those in need by reason of their age, physical or mental ill health, lack of capacity, disability, ethnicity, financial hardship or poverty, social exclusion or other disadvantage by increasing the availability of, facilitating access to, or providing or funding legal advice, assistance and representation for such individuals, or their relatives and carers (but only where they live or have a connection with, Scotland). 4.2 To prevent or relieve poverty, to advance citizenship and community development and to advance human rights and equalities (where the advancement of human rights relates, in particular, but not exclusively to, the promotion of the integrity and dignity of the person, availability of civil remedies and the advancement of the right to respect for private and family life enshrined by the European Convention on Human Rights, and where the advancement of equalities relates to the prevention of discrimination on the grounds of, or promotion of diversity relating to, any of the protected characteristics), by increasing the availability of, facilitating access to, funding or providing of legal advice, assistance and representation in such a way that enhances the ability of otherwise disadvantaged individuals to understand and pursue their rights and obtain appropriate remedies. 4.3 To advance education and to increase knowledge and awareness and facilitate access to remedies in regard to legal rights and responsibilities in the fields of social welfare and housing law, human rights, equalities, incapacity and mental health law and relevant public and private law remedies, including (without prejudice to that generality) legal rights and responsibilities relating to asylum, homelessness, social security, debt, consumer matters, equal opportunities and equalities, immigration, the rights of victims of crimes or accidents, employment rights, children, social work, mental health and incapacity, and such other fields of which knowledge, awareness and access to remedies requires to be enhanced as shall be determined by the charity trustees from time-to-time.