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.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that LawWorks is in a robust financial position, reporting a surplus of £185,154 for the year ended 31 December 2024. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £779,169, which the trustees note are equal to 11 months of operating costs, exceeding their stated policy target of six months.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2023) → 0 (FY2024).
• Going concern: not a going concern (FY2023) → no going-concern doubt (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

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 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~11.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 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: 10.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Deborah Smith
• Emma Rehal-Wilde
• Emma Tunstall
• GEMMA WATTS
• Ian Jeffery
• James Goldsmith KC
• Lord Peter Goldsmith KC PC

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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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with INTERNATIONAL LAWYERS PROJECT.

• INTERNATIONAL LAWYERS PROJECT income £508k
• THE LAW SOCIETY CHARITY income £111k
• BAR PRO BONO UNIT income £1.2m
• SOLICITORS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £1.6m
• LAWYERS AGAINST POVERTY income £156k
• LONDON LEGAL SUPPORT TRUST income £4.7m

Side by side with its peers

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