THE LAW SOCIETY EDUCATIONAL TRUST

Registered charity 1137234 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The various funds are the result of bequests, grants and other donations made to the Law Society specifically for the purposes of promoting legal education through the award of grants and prizes to legal students.

Objects

1 TO ADVANCE LEGAL EDUCATION, INCLUDING, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION, OF PERSONS WHO ARE OR WISH TO BECOME SOLICITORS AND BY THE PROVISION OF BURSARIES, SCHOLARSHIPS AND PRIZES AND OTHER GRANTS FOR PERSONS WHO WISH TO BECOME SOLICITORS IN ENGLAND WALES; AND2 TO PROMOTE THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAW, INCLUDING, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION, BY THE PROVISION OF CONTINUED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING TO PERSONS WHO ARE SOLICITORS IN ENGLAND AND WALES

Area of benefit: ENGLAND AND WALES

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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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £141,880 and restricted reserves of £1,962,023, with total net assets of £2,103,903. The trustees and auditors confirm the charity is a going concern with sufficient resources to meet liabilities for at least the next 12 months. The charity reported a net income of £198,706 for the year, driven by investment gains and voluntary income.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BDO LLP. Discloses 3 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.

• Investment

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/12/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/12/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/12/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/12/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/12/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/12/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• THE LAW SOCIETY

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE LAW SOCIETY CHARITY.

• THE LAW SOCIETY CHARITY income £111k
• THE SOCIETY OF LEGAL SCHOLARS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IRELAND income £304k
• THE SUTASOMA TRUST income £134k
• THE LEGAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION income £6.3m
• BEDINGFIELD'S TRUST income £119k
• HONOURABLE SOCIETY OF GRAY'S INN TRUST FUND income £2.6m

Side by side with its peers

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