CORAM CHILDREN'S LEGAL CENTRE LIMITED

Registered charity 281222 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5098150 · Wikipedia · also known as THE CHILDREN'S LEGAL CENTRE LIMITED

1, The provision of legal advice, support and information to children, young people and their carers2, The publication of information and research3, The provision of training and consultancy in relation to children and young people in the UK and overseas.

Objects

A. FOR THE BENEFIT OF CHILDREN WHO ARE IN NEED OF CARE AND PROTECTION BY THE PROVISION OF LEGAL ADVICE, ASSISTANCE AND OTHER LEGAL SERVICES FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH CHILDREN AS AFORESAID BY REASON OF THEIR OWN CIRCUMSTANCES OR BECAUSE OF THE POVERTY OF THEIR PARENTS, GUARDIANS, FOSTER PARENTS OR THOSE OTHERWISE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR CARE AND PROTECTION. B. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC ON ALL ASPECTS OF THE LAW PERTAINING TO CHILDREN. C. TO PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO THE UPBRINGING, EDUCATION, CARE AND PROTECTION OF CHILDREN PROVIDED THAT THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH ARE DISSEMINATED.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net increase in funds of £17,491 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total reserves standing at £2,210,292. The trustees note that cash reserves are held at the bank rather than invested due to volatility caused by the timing of contract payment receipts and movements in the work in progress balance.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 4 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
• 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01520787

What the charity says about itself

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• O'SULLIVAN, Alison Jane — director, appointed 28/01/2026on trustee list
• STEADMAN, David John — director, appointed 24/09/2025on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Douglas — director, appointed 19/06/2024on trustee list
• LEWIS, Danielle — director, appointed 20/03/2023on trustee list
• BURTON, Jamie — director, appointed 31/03/2021on trustee list
• PORTES, Jonathan Daniel — director, appointed 21/06/2017on trustee list
• HOMDEN, Carol Ann, Dr — secretary, appointed 01/09/2011

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 1.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/01/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Her Honour Judge Celia Dawsonchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alison Jane O'Sullivan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Danielle Lewis
• David John Steadman
• Douglas Taylor
• JONATHAN PORTES
• Jamie Burton · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: East Timor · Hungary · Kazakhstan · Kosovo · Laos · Libya · Montenegro · Poland · Somalia · Tanzania · Thailand · Turkmenistan

Income and spending

Common questions

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.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with JUST FOR KIDS LAW LIMITED.

• JUST FOR KIDS LAW LIMITED income £787k
• NOTTINGHAM LAW CENTRE LIMITED income £830k
• Community Legal Centre England income £70k
• UK CARE FOR CHILDREN income £1.7m
• CENTRAL ENGLAND LAW CENTRE LIMITED income £4.2m
• HARROW LAW CENTRE income £1.0m

Side by side with its peers

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