IMMIGRATION LAW PRACTITIONERS' ASSOCIATION LIMITED

Registered charity 1155286 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ILPA

ILPA is a professional association with 1000 members individuals and organisations practicing in all aspects of immigration, asylum and nationality law. ILPA's main aims are to promote and improve the advice and representation of immigrants, to disseminate information on developments in the law and to secure a just and equitable system of immigration, asylum and nationality law practice.

Objects

TO ADVANCE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT EDUCATION AND TRAINING ON THE LAW AND RELATED SUBJECTS AND IN PARTICULAR IN THE FIELDS OF IMMIGRATION, ASYLUM AND NATIONALITY LAW AND LEGAL ADVICE AND THE REPRESENTATION OF PERSONS WHO ARE OR MAY BECOME IMMIGRANTS TO ANY PART OF GREAT BRITAIN, NORTHERN IRELAND, THE CHANNEL ISLANDS AND THE ISLE OF MAN (TOGETHER "THE UNITED KINGDOM") FROM WHATEVER PART OF THE WORLD WHETHER COMING OR INTENDING TO COME TO THE UNITED KINGDOM FOR SETTLEMENT OR FOR SOME MORE LIMITED PURPOSE AND FOR IMMIGRANTS AND EMIGRANTS OF WHATEVER NATIONALITY TO OR FROM ANY OTHER PART OF THE WORLD.TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFITI. HUMAN RIGHTS AS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS, THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT (1998), WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE RIGHTS TO ASYLUM, TO A NATIONALITY, TO FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT AND RESIDENCE AND NOT TO BE SUBJECT TO TORTURE OR TO SLAVERY;II. EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY AS SET OUT IN THE EQUALITY ACT 2010 AND SIMILAR INSTRUMENTS AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS TREATIES CONCERNED WITH THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AND IN PARTICULAR WITH THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF RACE OR SEX;IN PARTICULAR BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS• MONITORING ABUSES• RESEARCH INTO APPLICABLE LAW POLICY AND PRACTICE• EDUCATING THE PUBLIC• CONTRIBUTING TO THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAW• RAISING AWARENESS• PROMOTING PUBLIC SUPPORT• PROMOTING RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS• PROMOTING RESPECT FOR THE RULE OF LAW WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE LAW PERTAINING TO IMMIGRATION, ASYLUM AND NATIONALITY• COORDINATING THE WORK OF IMMIGRATION, ASYLUM AND NATIONALITY LAW PRACTITIONERS

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 · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Southwark, 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 £25,157 for the year ended 31 March 2025, a significant improvement from the restated deficit of £269,233 in the prior year. Total reserves decreased to £607,207, with free/unrestricted reserves standing at £81,638. The trustees confirmed that the financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by SKS Audit LLP. Discloses 4 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.3 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 (90% 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: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

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 MIGRANT LEGAL ACTION.

• MIGRANT LEGAL ACTION income £206k
• ILFA income £77k
• BAIL FOR IMMIGRATION DETAINEES ( BID ) income £714k
• IMMIGRANT COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY (ICAP) income £946k
• INTERNATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTE TRUST income £892k
• INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF PROFESSIONAL AROMATHERAPISTS ("IFPA") income £156k

Side by side with its peers

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