MARY WARD LEGAL CENTRE

Registered charity 1024148 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of free legal, debt and welfare benefits advice to people who live in greater London area.Provide advice, asssistance and representation where appropriate. Specialise in Housing, Employment and debt law and welfare benefits.Our clients are from low income groups.

Objects

TO PROVIDE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, IN CONDITION OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS WITH ADVICE, INFORMATION, ASSISTANCE & REPRESENTATION DEALING WITH THE QUESTION OF HOUSING WELFARE RIGHTS, EMPLOYMENT, IMMIGRATION, TAXATION, INSOLVENCY & BANKRUPTCY AND OTHER FINANCIAL & LEGAL PROBLEMS.

Area of benefit: "IN PRACTICE" GTR. LONDON (PEOPLE LIVING/WORKING)

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Newham, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating surplus of £43,115 for the year ended 31 July 2025, with unrestricted reserves increasing to £161,337. However, the trustees note inherent material uncertainties regarding going concern due to the financial difficulties of the parent company, Mary Ward Settlement, and the Centre's reliance on continued funding streams to support its operations.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: material uncertainty (FY2024) → going-concern doubt noted (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (70% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Veronica Dalychair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Beatriz Montoya · trustee of 2 other charities
• Eva HENRY · trustee of 2 other charities
• Graham Keith Collins BSc MSc · trustee of 2 other charities
• Noor-ud-din JANMOHAMED · trustee of 2 other charities
• Paul William NICHOLS
• Valerie Susan Taylor · trustee of 2 other charities

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MERSEYSIDE LAW CENTRE LIMITED.

• MERSEYSIDE LAW CENTRE LIMITED income £525k
• LUTON LAW CENTRE income £407k
• BRISTOL LAW CENTRE income £1.5m
• SOUTHWARK LAW CENTRE income £2.7m
• MOTHER AND CHILD WELFARE ORGANISATION income £288k
• BESTWOOD ADVICE CENTRE LTD income £210k

Side by side with its peers

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