SUPPORT THROUGH COURT

Registered charity 1090781 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COURT BASED PERSONAL SUPPORT, PERSONAL SUPPORT UNIT

Support Through Court aim to reduce the disadvantage of people facing the civil and family justice system without a lawyer, enabling them to access justice. We believe that no one should face court alone and so we work to provide immediate support to everyone who comes to us.

Objects

A) TO PURSUE CHARITABLE PURPOSES BY THE PROVISION OF PERSONAL SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE WITHOUT REGARD TO RACE, GENDER, SEXUALITY, AGE OR DISABILITY FOR (1) THOSE SUFFERING OR LIKELY TO SUFFER EMOTIONAL OR PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS OR OTHERWISE IN NEED OF SUCH SUPPORT OR ASSISTANCE BY REASON OF THEIR INVOLVEMENT WITH ACTUAL OR ANTICIPATED LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AT THE ROYAL COURTS OF JUSTICE, THE STRAND, LONDON OR ELSEWHERE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, AND (11) THEIR SPOUSES, PARTNERS, FAMILIES AND FRIENDS SUPPORTING THEM IN RELATION TO SUCH LEGAL PROCEEDINGS; ANDB) TO FURTHER ALL AND ANY PURPOSES WHICH ARE CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO ENGLISH LAW

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £625,243, which equates to 5.1 months of running costs, exceeding the trustee target of four and a half months. The trustees consider there are no material financial uncertainties affecting the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, although they note that continued operation is dependent on securing future funding. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £125,877 for the year, with total income of £1,429,974 against total expenditure of £1,304,097.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2025) to "above" (FY2026).
• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2025) → no going-concern doubt (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed 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
• 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)

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 — Support Through Court (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Emma Taylor — CEO (source)
• Katherine Milliken — 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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

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 (60% 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: 35.9% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Katherine Jane Millikenchair
• Alexander Peter Hulbert
• Anthony Leonard Rupert Fincham · trustee of 1 other charity
• Elizabeth Mary Meekison
• Judith Helen Lawrence
• Kay-dene Reanne Hyacinth Petgrave
• Robert Charles Pitt
• Stephen Adler
• Timothy Mark Nash
• Tristan Richard George Harvey
• Zubair Chaudhry

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

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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ACCESS YOUR RIGHT TO CARE.

• ACCESS YOUR RIGHT TO CARE income £2.6m
• FOUNDATIONS: SUPPORTING FAMILIES income £336k
• INTERVENE PROJECT income £79k
• REFUGEE LEGAL SUPPORT income £879k
• THE CORONERS' COURTS SUPPORT SERVICE income £312k
• SUPPORTIVE SRC LTD income £5.9m

Side by side with its peers

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