LUTON LAW CENTRE

Registered charity 1039998 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Legal services in social welfare law, including advice, casework and representation in housing, immigration, welfare benefits and community care.

Objects

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.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Luton, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds held at 31 March 2025 were £264,122, which exceeds the charity's stated policy target of approximately £185,000 (equivalent to six months' running costs). The charity reported a net income surplus of £37,478 for the year and confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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

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

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

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Luton Rising — “Luton Rising is the owner of London Luton Airport and we are grateful for the grant from their community funding programme” (source page)
• Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation — “Luton Rising is the owner of London Luton Airport and we are grateful for the grant from their community funding programme, which is managed…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• Fiona Carfraechair
• Claire Melissa Goodwin
• Jeinsen Lam
• Kelly Gabrielle Koest Moh Kouassi
• Laurence Lane
• Vijay Krishna Viatla

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

Operates in: Bedford · Buckinghamshire · Central Bedfordshire · Hertfordshire · Luton

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.

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LUTON RIGHTS LIMITED.

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Side by side with its peers

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