SOCIETY FOR COMPUTERS AND LAW

Registered charity 266331 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q40460889 · also known as SCL, SOCIETY FOR COMPUTERS & LAW

Production of IT law and legal IT magazine "Computers & Law"; Development & maintenance of an educational website www.scl.org: Provision of an educational programme in London and the regions and on-line CPD training via the website. Research into current IT law issues and relevant IT; Considering and as appropriate responding to relevant government initiatives

Objects

1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE FIELD'S OF:(A) INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LAW AND OTHER RELATED LEGAL SUBJECTS;(B) INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AS APPLIED TO THE PRACTICE OF LAW; AND(C) THE LAW, BY USE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.2. THE PROMOTION OF THE SOUND DEVELOPMENT, ADMINISTRATION AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE LAW RELATING TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND RELATED LEGAL SUBJECTS, BOTH GENERALLY AND BY RESEARCH AND STUDY CONCERNING THE SAME.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net deficit of £84,185 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £127,942, which is below the trustees' target of 100% of anticipated annual costs. The independent auditors have identified a material uncertainty related to going concern due to net current liabilities and cash flow constraints, though the trustees remain confident in a turnaround driven by new income streams.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bishop Fleming Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → material uncertainty (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 24/03/2025, 52 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 18/02/2024, 18 days after the 31/01/2024 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £357k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alessandro Galtieri
• Andrew Lee Crystal
• Anne Emma Rose
• Dr Fernando Jose Barrio
• Dr Matthew Montague Lavy
• Katherine Ramo
• MARK JUSTIN O'CONOR
• Mark Lumley
• Miguel Gonzalez Ines
• Minesh Tanna
• Oliver Yaros
• Shelley Thomas
• Sonia Luthra
• Susan Maureen McLean

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

Operates in: Scotland

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LAW, LEISURE AND LEARNING.

• LAW, LEISURE AND LEARNING income £70k
• SUFFOLK LAW CENTRE income £328k
• THE BRITISH COMPUTER SOCIETY income £21.9m
• CLC INTERNATIONAL (UK) income £158k
• THE SOCIETY OF LEGAL SCHOLARS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IRELAND income £304k
• NATIONAL COLLEGE FOR DIGITAL SKILLS income £5.4m

Side by side with its peers

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