Legal Social Mobility Fund

Registered charity 1177969 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ASPIRING SOLICITORS FOUNDATION

Providing financial assistance for socially mobile students to pursue a legal career.

Objects

The object of the CIO is the relief of financial hardship facing undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students (part time / full time), from the United Kingdom, to help them to pursue a career as a solicitor in England, Scotland, and Wales and Northern Ireland, in particular but not exclusively by making grants by way of:• the provision of items (either outright or a loan) to facilitate, or connected with, education and/or vocational training including but not limited to books, laptops, chairs, printers, or other expenses connected with vocational training, travelling expenses to help fund training.

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 accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £22,490 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £177,453. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and adopted the going concern basis. The filing notes that growth slowed in 2025 due to reduced engagement and a lack of administrative support.

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
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Charles Whitechair
• Ailsa Longmuir
• Rachel Lindberg

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 LAW SOCIETY EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £126k
• THE SOCIAL MOBILITY FOUNDATION income £3.3m
• LONDON LEGAL SUPPORT TRUST income £5.0m
• LUTON LAW CENTRE income £407k
• ISLINGTON LAW CENTRE income £2.0m

Side by side with its peers

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