GREATER MANCHESTER LAW CENTRE

Registered charity 1170317 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Greater Manchester Law Centre is set up to provide access to justice for people in need through the provision of legal advice and representation.

Objects

1) TO RELIEVE POOR PERSONS IN THE TEN BOROUGHS MAKING UP THE COUNTY OF GREATER MANCHESTER BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH LEGAL SERVICES WHICH THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE OBTAIN THROUGH THE LACK OF MEANS. 2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AMONG PERSONS RESIDENT OR WORKING IN THE DESIGNATED AREA. 3) THE ADVANCEMENT OF SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS ARE BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY FOR PERSONS RESIDENT OR WORKING IN THE DESIGNATED AREA.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Manchester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £53,547 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted free reserves standing at £252,525. Per the trustees' report, this level of reserves is considered sufficient to cover approximately three months of unrestricted charitable expenditure and accrued redundancy liabilities. The trustees 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 independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• AB Charitable Trust — “We thank the following organisations for their financial support today and in the past: AB Charitable Trust” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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

• Aisha Khan
• Alison Treacher
• Andrew Kevin Walsh
• Arwa Graf
• Benjamin Clay
• Ciara Bartlam
• Craig Holmes
• DENISE MARIE MCDOWELL · trustee of 1 other charity
• GILES ELLIOTT
• KEVIN ALLSOP
• SUKHDEEP SINGH

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

Operates in: Bolton · Bury · Manchester City · Oldham · Rochdale · Salford City · Stockport · Tameside · Trafford · Wigan

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

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MERSEYSIDE LAW CENTRE LIMITED.

• MERSEYSIDE LAW CENTRE LIMITED income £525k
• BRISTOL LAW CENTRE income £1.5m
• GREATER MANCHESTER COMMUNITY CHAPLAINCY LTD income £51k
• CENTRAL ENGLAND LAW CENTRE LIMITED income £4.2m
• GREATER MANCHESTER HEAD FORWARD CENTRE LTD income £70k
• HARINGEY LAW CENTRE income £842k

Side by side with its peers

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