LONDON LEGAL SUPPORT TRUST

Registered charity 1101906 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LLST

THE TRUST FUNDS VOLUNTARY SECTOR LEGAL AGENCIES IN LONDON AND THE HOME COUNTIES THAT PROVIDE FREE LEGAL ADVICE TO POOR OR DISADVANTAGED MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC AND NETWORK ORGANISATIONS THAT SUPPORT THESE LEGAL AGENCIES.

Objects

1) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND DISTRESS AMONG RESIDENTS OF GREATER LONDON AND THE HOME COUNTIES IN ANY WAY THAT THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL AND OTHER SUPPORT TO CHARITABLE AND OTHER AGENCIES THAT PROVIDE ADVICE, CASEWORK OR REPRESENTATION IN RESPECT OF LEGAL ISSUES; AND 2) THE PROMOTION OF SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES BEING EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: GREATER LONDON AND THE HOME COUNTIES

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net income of £139,555 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income of £4,995,621. Free reserves stood at £1,162,663, which the trustees confirmed was almost 2.5 times their stated policy target of maintaining eight months of normal operating expenditure. The auditor confirmed the financial statements give a true and fair view and found no material uncertainties related to 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 UHY Hacker Young. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £60,001 - £70,000 (FY2024) to £70,000-£80,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 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
• 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 — London Legal Support Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (75% 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: 8.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/10/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• RICHARD DYTONchair
• Conchita Anastasi
• Craig Rodney Nethercott
• EMMA TURNBULL
• Emma Sara Richards
• GRAHAM PAUL HUNTLEY
• JOY JULIEN
• James Ian Harper
• Jillian Clare Brown
• Rodger Douglas Pressland · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah McKeown
• Sophie Hay
• Stefka Vladimirova Bratoevska

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire · East Sussex · Essex · Hertfordshire · Kent · Surrey · Throughout London · West Sussex

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 LUTON LAW CENTRE.

• LUTON LAW CENTRE income £407k
• SOUTH WEST LONDON LAW CENTRES income £1.8m
• THE LEGAL ADVICE CENTRE(UNIVERSITY HOUSE) income £1.1m
• LONDON CITIZENS ADVICE LTD income £1.7m
• THE LAW SOCIETY CHARITY income £111k
• ISLINGTON LAW CENTRE income £2.0m

Side by side with its peers

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