LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN'S RIGHTS SERVICE

Registered charity 1075163 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

LAWRS is a human rights organisation providing tools & information for Latin American women in the UK to achieve personal & social change. We aim to alleviate poverty, prevent violence and achieve recognition. Activities (free & mother tongue) include advice & casework; counselling; employment orientation; classes, workshops & activities to promote integration & leadership and policy & campaigning

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN LIVING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM BY PROVIDING ADVICE, INFORMATION AND SUPPORT IN AREAS OF WELFARE BENEFITS ,HEALTH, HOUSING, EDUCATION AND TRAINING, IMMIGRATION, FAMILY AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND DISTRESS.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM

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 · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £130,162 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £1,077,867 against expenditure of £947,705. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £460,572, which exceeds the stated policy target of £445,614, and the auditors confirmed no material uncertainties regarding the charity's 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 audited by Knox Cropper LLP. Discloses 4 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
• 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)

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — LAWRS (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (62% 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: 2.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mariana Brandeburgochair
• Fernanda Munhoz
• Isabel Graefin von Medem
• Maria Rosa Torres Sejin
• Sandra Hayne
• Sara Cristina Zavala Gutierrez · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sofia Condes Diez-Martinez

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HISPANIC WELFARE ASSOCIATION.

• HISPANIC WELFARE ASSOCIATION income £228k
• LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN'S AID REFUGE income £2.6m
• LUTON LAW CENTRE income £407k
• LATIN AMERICAN HOUSE income £478k
• RIGHTS OF WOMEN INCORPORATED income £1.2m
• LEEDS WOMEN'S AID income £4.7m

Side by side with its peers

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