SOUTH WEST LONDON LAW CENTRES

Registered charity 1102433 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BATTERSEA LAW CENTRE, BATTERSEA LEGAL ADVICE, CROYDON AND SUTTON LAW CENTRE, KINGSTON AND RICHMOND LAW CENTRE, MORDEN LEGAL ADVICE, SWLLC

Legal Advice, Assistance and Representation.

Objects

3.1 THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SUFFERING AND DISTRESS AMONG, PERSONS RESIDENT OR WORKING OR IN FULL-TIME EDUCATION IN SOUTH WEST LONDON INCLUDING THE BOROUGHS OF WANSWORTH, MERTON, KINGSTON UPON THAMES, RICHMOND UPON THAMES, CROYDON AND SUTTON (AND IN EXCEPTIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES, RESIDENTS OF OTHER AREAS) ("SOUTHWEST LONDON AREA"), BY THE PROVISION OF LEGAL ADVICE, ASSISTANCE, REPRESENTATION; AND3.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AMONG PERSONS RESIDENT OR WORKING IN THE SOUTH WEST LONDON AREA BY THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION IN RESPECT OF THE LAW AND THEIR LEGAL RIGHTS AND DUTIES.3.3 THE PROMOTION OF SUCH OTHER PURPOSES BEING EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: WANDSWORTH, MERTON, KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES, RICHMOND, SUTTON AND CROYDON

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a small surplus of £2,446 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £1,761,577 and expenditure of £1,759,131. Unrestricted reserves stood at £514,823, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of approximately £427,507 (three months of expenditure). The accounts state there are 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 Berringers LLP. Discloses 5 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
• 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Patrick Marples — CEO (source)
• Nichola Warrender KC — Chair of Trustees (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

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: Charitable activities (61% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Jackson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gemma Frances Hyslop
• James Waugh
• Marie Diron
• Melanie Dorothea Felten
• Nimmisha Aslam
• Sarmad Mehmood Qureshi
• Simon Tinkler
• Susan Rennie Field

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

Operates in: Croydon · Kingston Upon Thames · Merton · Richmond Upon Thames · Sutton · Wandsworth

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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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• ISLINGTON LAW CENTRE income £2.0m
• SOUTH WESTMINSTER LEGAL ADVICE CENTRE CIO income £47k
• SOUTHWARK LAW CENTRE income £2.7m
• LUTON LAW CENTRE income £407k
• SOUTH EAST AND CENTRAL ESSEX MIND LIMITED income £883k
• THE LEGAL ADVICE CENTRE(UNIVERSITY HOUSE) income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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