LAW FOR LIFE: THE FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC LEGAL EDUCATION

Registered charity 1143589 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Advicenow, LAW FOR LIFE, THE FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC LEGAL EDUCATION

Law for Life: the Foundation for Public Legal Education works to ensure that ordinary people have the knowledge, confidence and practical skills that they need to deal with the law-related issues they encounter in the course of their lives.We support organisations to deliver public legal education, undertake research, and promote awareness and understanding of the need for legal capability.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC LEGAL EDUCATION WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND.

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 FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure of £20,385 for the year, reducing its total funds from £176,693 to £156,308. Free reserves stood at £114,354, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of at least three months' operational expenditure. The accounts were subject to an independent examination rather than a full audit.

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 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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 07695486

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.

• BASTARBEKOVA, Zamira — director, appointed 23/03/2026on trustee list
• CROWN, Giles Humphry — director, appointed 03/07/2025on trustee list
• WHITE, Christopher — director, appointed 26/06/2025not on trustee list
• COX, Alastair — director, appointed 26/06/2025on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Rhys Steadman — director, appointed 26/06/2025on trustee list
• EDWARDS, Fiona Rachel Anne Sutherland — director, appointed 26/06/2024on trustee list
• JANA, Rohini — director, appointed 21/06/2023on trustee list
• DAVIS, Jennifer — director, appointed 01/06/2023on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (85% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Fiona Edwardschair
• Alastair Cox
• Chris White
• Giles Crown
• Jennifer Davis
• Rhys Taylor
• Rohini Jana
• Savita Narain
• Zamira Bastarbekova

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE LEGAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION.

• THE LEGAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION income £6.3m
• THE LAW SOCIETY EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £126k
• L'ASSOCIATION DES JURISTES FRANCO-BRITANNIQUES/THE FRANCO-BRITISH LAWYERS SOCIETY LIMITED income £31k
• EDUCATION FOR LIFE income £256k
• CENTRE FOR LEGAL AID ASSISTANCE AND SETTLEMENT income £90k
• LAW CENTRES FEDERATION income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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