PLUMSTEAD COMMUNITY LAW CENTRE LTD.

Registered charity 1043070 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PCLC, PLUMSTEAD COMMUNITY LAW CENTRE, THAMESMEAD LAW CENTRE

Legal advice, advocacy & representation in the areas of immigration, employment and welfare rights law

Objects

(1)TO RELIEVE POOR PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE BENEFIT AREA BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH LEGAL SERVICES WHICH THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE OBTAIN THROUGH LACK OF MEANS. (11)THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AMONG PERSONS RESIDENT OR WORKING IN THE BENEFIT AREA. (111)THE ADVANCEMENT OF SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS ARE BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY FOR PERSONS RESIDENT OR WORKING IN THE BENEFIT AREA.

Area of benefit: LONDON BOROUGH OF GREENWICH, AND THAMESMEAD PART OF LONDON BOROUGH OF BEXLEY

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held total funds of £105,722 at 31 March 2025, which included sufficient funds to cover approximately three months of operating expenditure. The trustees confirmed they have a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, adopting the going concern basis.

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.

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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 19/02/2024, 19 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Helen Walpole
• Hugh Lansdowne · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lovat Michael Graham Rees
• Patrick Marples
• Rachel Olivia Pulley-Crowther

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

Operates in: Greenwich

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

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

• LUTON LAW CENTRE income £407k
• ISLINGTON LAW CENTRE income £2.0m
• SOUTHWARK LAW CENTRE income £2.7m
• BRISTOL LAW CENTRE income £1.5m
• HARINGEY LAW CENTRE income £842k
• LONDON LEGAL SUPPORT TRUST income £5.0m

Side by side with its peers

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