SOLICITORS PRO BONO GROUP

Registered charity 1064274 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LAW WORKS, LawWorks

To promote the upholding and proper administration of the law.To encourage, support and advise lawyers and their staff to undertake charitable voluntary work in the administration of the law, education, social services, community work and other charitable activities for the benefit of the community.To provide pro bono legal services.

Objects

(A)(I) TO PROMOTE THE UPHOLDING AND PROPER ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAW BY: ENCOURAGING, SUPPORTING AND ADVISING SOLICITORS AND FIRMS OF SOLICITORS AND THEIR STAFFS IN THE PROVISION OF PRO BONO LEGAL SERVICES; AND ADVANCING THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF SOLICITORS AND FIRMS OF SOLICITORS AND THEIR STAFFS UNDERTAKING OR INTENDING TO UNDERTAKE PRO BONO LEGAL SERVICES; (II) TO ENCOURAGE, SUPPORT AND ADVISE SOLICITORS TO UNDERTAKE CHARITABLE VOLUNTARY WORK IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAW, EDUCATION, SOCIAL SERVICES, COMMUNITY WORK AND OTHER CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY; AND (III) TO PROVIDE PRO BONO LEGAL SERVICES. (B) IN CLAUSE 3.A. "PRO BONO LEGAL SERVICES" MEANS: (I) LEGAL ADVICE AND REPRESENTATION AND OTHER LEGAL SERVICES BY INDIVIDUAL SOLICITORS, FIRMS OF SOLICITORS AND THEIR STAFFS AT A SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCED OR NO COST TO INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS OF INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANISATIONS WHO BY REASON OF THEIR INADEQUATE MEANS CANNOT AFFORD SUCH LEGAL ADVICE, REPRESENTATION OR SERVICES; AND (II) THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL AND OTHER RESOURCES IN SUPPORT OF SUCH SERVICES.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that LawWorks reported a surplus of £67,137 for the year ended 31 December 2025. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £848,471, which is above the stated policy target of approximately £460,000 (six months of operating costs). The trustees confirm the charity remains a going concern with adequate resources to continue operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. 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
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• 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)

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Lord Goldsmith KC — Chair (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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~11.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (85% 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: 16.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Norman Stacey
• Deborah Smith
• Emma Rehal-Wilde
• Emma Tunstall
• GEMMA WATTS
• Ian Jeffery
• James Goldsmith KC
• Lord Peter Goldsmith KC PC
• Sally Gill

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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 PRO BONO COMMUNITY.

• PRO BONO COMMUNITY income £188k
• THE LAW SOCIETY CHARITY income £111k
• SOLICITORS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £1.6m
• INTERNATIONAL LAWYERS PROJECT income £508k
• BAR PRO BONO UNIT income £1.2m
• JUSTICE BASE income £726k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.