FINANCIAL MARKETS LAW COMMITTEE

Registered charity 1164902 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ?FMLC? AND ?THE FINANCIAL MARKETS LAW COMMITTEE? ARE NAMES USED BY A COMMITTEE APPOINTED BY THE COMPANY, FMLC AND THE FINANCIAL MARKETS LAW COMMITTEE ARE NAMES USED BY A COMMITTEE APPOINTED BY THE COMPANY

The Financial Markets Law Committee aims to identify issues of legal uncertainty affecting wholesale financial markets, including inconsistencies between draft law or regulation and market practice, and to publish proposals for resolving them.

Objects

THE COMPANY’S OBJECTS ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO PROMOTING FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY:(1) IDENTIFYING AND CONSIDERING, IMPARTIALLY AND IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST, ISSUES OF LEGAL UNCERTAINTY OR MISUNDERSTANDING RELATING TO THE FUNCTIONING AND REGULATION OF FINANCIAL MARKETS; AND; (2) MAKING ITS WORK ON THOSE LEGAL ISSUES FREELY AVAILABLE TO FINANCIAL MARKETS AND TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

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

Causes: Education/training · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £47,392 for the year, resulting in unrestricted reserves decreasing to £461,569. The trustees confirm that reserves are slightly less than total expenses and are intended to cover costs until the next fundraising round. The trustees and auditors both confirm 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 Price Bailey 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carolyn Jackson
• Jonathan May
• KATHLEEN GIBBONS
• SIMON FIRTH
• SIR ROBIN KNOWLES CBE · trustee of 1 other charity

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.

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 SOCIAL MARKET FOUNDATION.

• THE SOCIAL MARKET FOUNDATION income £1.1m
• LAW CENTRES FEDERATION income £1.1m
• THE CHARITY FINANCE GROUP income £2.0m
• THE MARKET RESEARCH BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION income £37k
• THE LAW SOCIETY CHARITY income £111k
• INCORPORATED COUNCIL OF LAW REPORTING FOR ENGLAND AND WALES income £6.1m

Side by side with its peers

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