L A G EDUCATION AND SERVICE TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 265703 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LEGAL ACTION GROUP

LAG Education and Service Trust Limited (more commonly known as LAG), is a national charity, which promotes equal access to justice. It achieves its objectives by publishing legal books and its monthly magazine Legal Action plus running training courses. Its main customers are lawyers and publicly funded legal services.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE LAW IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND SECONDLY TO RELIEVE POOR PERSONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM BY PROMOTING AND ASSISTING WITH THE PROVISION OF LEGAL SERVICES WHICH WOULD NOT OTHERWISE BE AVAILABLE TO THEM THROUGH LACK OF MEANS.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM

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

Causes: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved an unrestricted surplus of £65,213 for the year ended 31 December 2024, reversing a deficit from the previous year. Per the trustees' report, the charity's free reserves of £91,427 are just below the minimum three-month target of £110,020, though the trustees anticipate improvement in 2025.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting 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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (81% 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

• Alastair Logan
• Amanda Louise Groves
• Annabel Lee
• Brian Dikoff · trustee of 2 other charities
• Charlotte Alicia Hughes
• Jonathan Simon Robins · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lisa Linds
• Sarah Helen Michael

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

Operates in: Throughout London

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
• LACES TRUST income £105k
• JURIS ANGLIAE SCIENTIA LIMITED income £190k
• LAW FOR LIFE: THE FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC LEGAL EDUCATION income £581k
• LONDON LEGAL SUPPORT TRUST income £5.0m
• THE LEGAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION income £6.3m

Side by side with its peers

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