CAMDEN COMMUNITY LAW CENTRE

Registered charity 290441 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

High quality advice to Camden's most deprived residents through telephone and face to face work. We reach BME and refugee communities by having a number of advisers from those communities. Areas of advice offered are: Welfare Benefits, Employment, Debt, Housing, Asylum and Immigration - we include representation at Tribunals and Outreach sessions in libraries and Community Centre.

Objects

3.1 THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS ARE RESTRICTED SPECIFICALLY IN EACH CASE ONLY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:3.1.1 TO PREVENT AND RELIEVE POVERTY BY PROVIDING IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO A RANGE OF LEGAL SERVICES, CASE WORK AND REPRESENTATION FOR THE COMMUNITY; 3.1.2 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION OF PEOPLE AND TO EMPOWER THEM TO UNDERSTAND THEIR RIGHTS BY PROVIDING IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO PUBLIC LEGAL EDUCATION IN ADDITION TO CASE WORK; AND 3.1.3 TO ADVANCE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES (ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES) AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £919,952, exceeding the stated reserves policy target of twelve months' expenditure. The charity reported a net incoming resource of £136,522 for the year, with total income of £640,989 and total expenditure of £504,467.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Berringers LLP. 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
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01854266 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• KUMAR, Annika — director, appointed 06/10/2026on trustee list
• MCLARTY, Phoebe — director, appointed 21/03/2022on trustee list
• WOOD, Derek Alexander — director, appointed 26/11/2015not on trustee list
• MATHER, Sandi — director, appointed 06/09/2012on trustee list
• GRAYSON, Manuela Berthe — director, appointed 08/03/2012on trustee list
• IOANNOU, Koula — director, appointed 26/01/2006on trustee list
• CANNING, Sean — secretary, appointed 22/07/2025

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 ~21.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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

• Annika Kumar
• DEREK WOOD OBE QC
• Koula Ioannou
• MANUELA GRAYSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• MR JOHN CHARLES COWLAY
• Phoebe McLarty
• SANDI MATHER

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

Operates in: Camden

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

• LUTON LAW CENTRE income £407k
• Community Legal Centre England income £70k
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• BRISTOL LAW CENTRE income £1.5m
• EALING LAW CENTRE income £589k

Side by side with its peers

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