EQUALITY AND EMPLOYMENT LAW CENTRE

Registered charity 1101876 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MERSEYSIDE EMPLOYMENT LAW LIMITED

1. Specialist advice,casework and advocacy to individuals in the areas of Employment Law & Discrimination law.2. Advice, training and support to community & voluntary sector organisations in the areas of Employment Law, Discrimination Law and Human Resources.3. Provision of Volunteering whereby individuals can gain skills, knowledge, training and improved employment opportunities.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE AREA OF MERSEYSIDE AND IN PARTICULAR TO: 1. RELIEVE POVERTY BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE AND ADVOCACY IN EMPLOYMENT AND DISCRIMINATION LAW TO THOSE PERSONS OTHERWISE UNABLE TO ACCESS SUCH ADVICE AND ADVOCACY.2. PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE AND TRAINING IN EMPLOYMENT AND DISCRIMINATION LAW.3. ADVANCE EDUCATION BY IMPROVING THE KNOWLEDGE OF EMPLOYMENT AND DISCRIMINATION LAW AND ITS OPERATION OF PERSONS RESIDENT OR EMPLOYED IN MERSEYSIDE.

Area of benefit: LIVERPOOL AND MERSEYSIDE

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 · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Liverpool, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £133,923 for the year ended 30 March 2025, resulting in a significant reduction in total funds from £157,607 to £23,684. The trustees acknowledge material uncertainties regarding ongoing income sources but maintain the going concern basis, noting that unrestricted reserves of £13,786 are below the stated policy target of three months' expenditure. The charity is actively seeking new funding and exploring a merger to stabilize its financial position.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 01/02/2024, 1 day after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anna Urbanik Ms
• Joe Keegan
• Susan Branch Ms

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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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

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YOUR EMPLOYMENT SETTLEMENT SERVICE.

• YOUR EMPLOYMENT SETTLEMENT SERVICE income £595k
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• ADVOCACY FOCUS income £2.6m

Side by side with its peers

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