THE INNS OF COURT AND THE BAR EDUCATIONAL TRUST

Registered charity 313524 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COUNCIL OF LEGAL EDUCATION, ICBET

ICBET's objectives are achieved through the award of grants and the Trust holds funds to be applied in the support of education and training for the Bar. In particular, its funds are designed to support the activities of organisations engaged in the further education of pupils and young and recently qualified barristers.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TO FURTHER THE DUE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE AND TO ADVANCE LEGAL EDUCATION IN EACH CASE BY THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING TO STUDENTS ASPIRING TO BE CALLED TO THE BAR OF ENGLAND AND WALES OR PERSONS WHO HAVING BEEN SO CALLED ARE IN PUPILLAGE OR WHO HAVE HELD A PRACTISING CERTIFICATE FOR THREE YEARS OR LESS AND ACCORDINGLY ARE IN NEED OF FURTHER EDUCATION.

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.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds total unrestricted reserves of £189,675, which the Trustees consider sufficient to cover annual running costs of approximately £100,000. The charity relies on investment income, which generated £62,578 in the year, to fund charitable grants totaling £119,670. The Trustees note that sustaining current grant levels may eventually require dipping into unrestricted accumulated capital funds.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Lubbock Fine 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Duncan Henry Rowland Matthews KCchair
• Benjamin Wood
• Colin Edelman KC
• EDWARD FRANCIS COUSINS
• HHJ Lynn Margaret Tatyon KC
• Imran Benson
• Kiril Waite
• Mr Justice Martin Alexander Griffiths
• William East

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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