PADDINGTON LAW CENTRE LIMITED

Registered charity 299948 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q141677478

PROVISION OF LEGAL ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE

Objects

Objects(i) To relieve poor persons (hereinafter referred to as "qualifying persons") resident or working in Greater London and in particular in the North Paddington area including the postal districts of W2, W9 and the Westminster part of W10 (hereinafter referred to as the "designated area") by providing such persons with legal advice, assistance, representation and services which they could not otherwise obtain because of lack of means.(ii) To advance the education of qualifying persons in relation to the law and legal issues and to make the law known and accessible to them.(iii) To advance any charitable purposes beneficial to qualifying persons and their community.

Area of benefit: SEE OBJECTS

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net outgoing of resources of £30,097 for the year, resulting in unrestricted funds decreasing from £37,280 to £7,183. The trustees' report notes that the reserves policy is to maintain three to six months' expenditure, and the current unrestricted balance is below this target. The independent auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Berringers LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• 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
• 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• PETER PURTONchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Athina Mouzakitou
• HARMONY FITZGERALD
• Karen Patricia Buck · trustee of 1 other charity
• Laura Louise Hastie
• Rhys Samuel Thomas

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

Operates in: City Of Westminster

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• ISLINGTON LAW CENTRE income £2.0m
• CENTRE FOR LEGAL AID ASSISTANCE AND SETTLEMENT income £90k
• THE RECOGNISED FOUNDATION LIMITED income £30k
• THE CARPENTER CHARITABLE TRUST income £65k
• CHRIST TEMPLE OF WORSHIP income £293k
• SOUTH WEST LONDON LAW CENTRES income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

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