LAW CENTRES FEDERATION

Registered charity 1088588 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q43143058 · also known as LAW CENTRES NETWORK, LCF, LCN

To relieve charitable need and financial hardship, provide assistance to Law Centres and encourage the formation of Law Centres in the United Kingdom. To advance the education of the public by assisting Law Centres in improving knowledge and practice of the law, and administration of justice in areas of the law which are of particular concern to poor people and directed to the relief of poverty.

Objects

(A) TO RELIEVE CHARITABLE NEED, IN PARTICULAR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, AND IN SO DOING PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO LAW CENTRES AND ENCOURAGE THE FORMATION OF LAW CENTRES IN TH UNITED KINGDOM. (B) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY ASSISTING LAW CENTRES IN IMPROVING AND DIFFUSING KNOWLEDGE OF THE LAW AND THE PRACTICE OF THE LAW AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE, HAVING REGARD ESPECIALLY TO THOSE AREAS OF THE LAW WHICH ARE OF PARTICULAR CONCERN TO POOR PEOPLE OR ARE DIRECTED TO THE RELIEF OF POVERTY.

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit on unrestricted funds of £9,467, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £89,432. The trustees note that this level of reserves is below their stated policy target of six months' core service running costs (£177,000), though they consider the current cash position sufficient to meet liabilities for at least one year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Goldwins Limited. Discloses 6 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Investing charity funds 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02433492

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Law Centres Network (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Helen Rogers — Chair of trustees (source)
• Julie Bishop — 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Baring Foundation — “Law Centre Hub Project (Baring Foundation)” (source page)
• The Bell Foundation — “Victims of Crime Project (The Bell Foundation)” (source page)
• HM Government — “EU Settled Status Project (HM Government)” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• VON HERBERT, Hilton Ransford — director, appointed 21/11/2025not on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Sara Naomi — director, appointed 21/11/2025on trustee list
• ALLAN, Andrew John Angus — director, appointed 21/11/2025on trustee list
• LOGAN, Vanessa Clare — director, appointed 21/11/2025on trustee list
• WHITTINGHAM, Nicholas Eugene — director, appointed 22/11/2024on trustee list
• JACKSON, David — director, appointed 22/11/2024on trustee list
• STEPHENS, Thomas Christopher — director, appointed 22/11/2024on trustee list
• THOMAS, Gareth Howell, Professor — director, appointed 22/11/2024on trustee list
• WEIGHTS, Mark Clifton — director, appointed 24/11/2023on trustee list
• SHAH, Sagar Kantilal — director, appointed 24/11/2023on trustee list
• NASH, Lydia Elizabeth — director, appointed 02/12/2022on trustee list
• FAWOLE, Modupe Ayodeji Michael — director, appointed 02/12/2022on trustee list
• MCALLISTER, Victor Carmelle Alphonso — director, appointed 02/12/2022on trustee list
• ROGERS, Helen Claire Darby — director, appointed 16/04/2012on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (84% 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: 3.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• HELEN CLAIRE DARBY ROGERSchair
• Andrew John Angus Allan · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Jackson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Hilton Ransford Von Herbert · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lydia Elizabeth Nash
• Mark Clifton Weights
• Modupe Ayodeji Michael Fawole · trustee of 1 other charity
• NICHOLAS EUGENE WHITTINGHAM · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Gareth Thomas
• Sagar Kantilal Shah
• Sara Naomi Taylor
• Thomas Christopher Stephens
• Vanessa Clare Logan
• Victor Carmelle Alphonso McAllister

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• SUFFOLK LAW CENTRE income £328k
• HARROW LAW CENTRE income £1.0m
• CENTRAL ENGLAND LAW CENTRE LIMITED income £4.2m
• THE LAW SOCIETY CHARITY income £111k
• Community Legal Centre England income £70k
• EALING LAW CENTRE income £589k

Side by side with its peers

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