EAST GREENWICH LEGAL ADVICE CLINIC

Registered charity 1197038 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The provision of free legal advice to persons living in a South East London postcode.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP BY THE PROVISION OF FREE LEGAL ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE TO PERSONS RESIDENT OR BASED IN A SOUTH EAST LONDON POSTCODE WHO, THROUGH LACK OF MEANS, WOULD OTHERWISE BE UNABLE TO OBTAIN SUCH ADVICE.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity received total incoming resources of £33,433 and incurred total payments of £28,769, resulting in a net surplus for the year. The trustees have reaffirmed a reserves policy target of three months' running costs, and the charity holds unrestricted cash funds of £22,752 at the end of the period.

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.

• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 16/04/2024, 168 days after the 31/10/2023 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — East Greenwich Legal Advice Clinic (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• TIMOTHY GRAHAM CAVEchair
• Gifty Okonkwo
• Kathryn Shakespeare
• Philip Croall · trustee of 1 other charity
• Susan Debra Hall · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bexley · Bromley · Croydon · Greenwich · Lewisham · Southwark

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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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Side by side with its peers

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