Community Legal Centre England

Registered charity 1180884 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTRE ESSEX

The objects are:1) The relief of financial hardship by the provision of free legal advice and assistance to persons who through lack of means would otherwise be unable to access such services provided by a private practice and qualified legal representative or equivalent.2) The advancement of the education of the public by increasing knowledge and understanding of the law.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:1) THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP BY THE PROVISION OF FREE LEGAL ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE TO PERSONS WHO THROUGH LACK OF MEANS WOULD OTHERWISE BE UNABLE TO ACCESS SUCH SERVICES.2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY INCREASING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE LAW.

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

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Chelmsford, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £123,880 at the end of the year, with no restricted funds remaining. The trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, and the independent examiner reported no matters requiring attention.

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 3 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 20/04/2026, 79 days after the 31/01/2026 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew George Thorpe-Apps
• PHILIP ROBERT ANDREW WILSON · trustee of 2 other charities
• RUSSELL MYNOTT

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

Operates in: Essex

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.

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Charities like this

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

• CENTRAL ENGLAND LAW CENTRE LIMITED income £4.2m
• THE LAW SOCIETY CHARITY income £111k
• HACKNEY COMMUNITY LAW CENTRE income £697k
• HARROW LAW CENTRE income £1.0m
• CENTRE FOR LEGAL AID ASSISTANCE AND SETTLEMENT income £90k
• LAW CENTRES FEDERATION income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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