HARROW LAW CENTRE

Registered charity 1134778 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

a) the relief of financial hardship by the provision of free, independent legal advice and assistance to person who, through lack of means, would otherwise be unable to obtain such advice;b) public legal education

Objects

A THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP BY THE PROVISION OF FREE, INDEPENDENT LEGAL ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE TO PERSONS WHO, THROUGH LACK OF MEANS, WOULD OTHERWISE BE UNABLE TO OBTAIN SUCH ADVICEB TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES FROM TIME TO TIME IN FORCE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT; ANDC TO ADVANCE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE DIRECTORS AT THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL.

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

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £6,547 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £1,020,607 against total expenditure of £1,027,154. Per the trustees' report, accumulated unrestricted reserves stood at £307,932, which the trustees consider adequate to meet the charity's obligations and maintain it 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.

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
• 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 07126773 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• JOSHI, Rishi — director, appointed 07/03/2018on trustee list
• CONVISSER, Adam Thomas — director, appointed 22/04/2014on trustee list
• DENNEMONT, Cyril Guillaume Noel — director, appointed 10/10/2012on trustee list
• WHITEHEAD, Anne — director, appointed 15/01/2010on 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 ~3.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Cyril Dennemontchair
• ANNE WHITEHEAD
• Adam Thomas Convisser
• Rishi Joshi
• Sarah Wood

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

Operates in: Brent · Harrow · Hillingdon · Hounslow

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 SUFFOLK LAW CENTRE.

• SUFFOLK LAW CENTRE income £328k
• HILLINGDON LAW CENTRE income £305k
• BRISTOL LAW CENTRE income £1.5m
• ISLINGTON LAW CENTRE income £2.0m
• LAW CENTRES FEDERATION income £1.1m
• THE LAW SOCIETY CHARITY income £111k

Side by side with its peers

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