THE LEGAL ADVICE CENTRE(UNIVERSITY HOUSE)

Registered charity 1061182 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provides advocacy/advice/information

Objects

I) TO RELIEVE POVERTY BY PROVIDING LEGAL ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE TO NEEDY PERSONS IN THE EAST END OF LONDON (NAMELY THE LONDON BOROUGH OF TOWER HAMLETS AND THE AREAS OF HACKNEY AND STOKE NEWINGTON OR ELSEWHERE WITHIN ENGLAND AND WALES), AND IN THE FURTHERANCE OF THIS OBJECT AND ANCILLARY THERETO TO INSTITUTE CONDUCT AND DEFEND ANY PROCEEDINGS BEFORE ANY COURT OR TRIBUNAL OR FOR ANY PURPOSES OR IN ANY OTHER FORUM IN WHICH LEGAL ADVICE OR REPRESENTATION MAY BE REQUIRED ON BEHALF OF PERSONS SEEKING THE ASSISTANCE OF THE CHARITY; AND (II) FOR THAT PURPOSE TO CARRY ON THE ACTIVITIES HITHERTO CARRIED ON BY THE CHARITABLE TRUST COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE LEGAL ADVICE CENTRE (UNIVERSITY HOUSE) AND TO RECEIVE SUCH ASSETS AS MAY BE MADE OVER TO IT BY SUCH CHARITABLE TRUST AS MAY BE APPROPRIATE ON SUCH TERMS AS THE TRUSTEES OF THE CHARITY SHALL THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: EAST END OF LONDON (TOWER HAMLETS AND HACKNEY AND STOKE NEWINGTON AND SURROUNDING DISTRICTS)

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 · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £174,054 for the year ended 31 March 2025, increasing its unrestricted reserves to £547,181. The trustees consider the financial position satisfactory and believe the current reserves provide a sound base for future activity, noting that unrestricted free reserves cover running costs for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Goldwins Limited. Discloses 4 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Eddie Coppinger — CEO (source)
• Lizzie Twigger — Chair (source)
• Jennie Graham — Operations Director (source)
• Shah Begum — Projects Director (source)
• Elizabeth Davey — Projects Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (77% 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: 4.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• SALLY ELIZABETH TWIGGERchair
• ALEX HUTTON
• Ali Ahmed
• Boin Cheong
• CHARLES HENRY BENNETT
• FOYEZ AHMED RAHIM
• Jemma Thorogood
• MAZIDUR RAHMAN
• Philippa O'Malley
• Rachel Morris
• Robert James WHEAL
• SHALINA RAHMAN

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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Side by side with its peers

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