SUFFOLK LAW CENTRE
Charity number: 1176229
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
To provide legal services to help the diverse communities of Suffolk to gain equal access to justice, to challenge disadvantage and inequality, and to understand their legal rights, obligations and protections.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 March 2025
Total income: £328,274
Total expenditure: £413,241
Total income includes £30,235 from 1 government contract(s) and £26,400 from 2 government grant(s)
People
9 Trustee(s)
52 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charityFundraising
No information available
Trading
This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.
Trustee payments
No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.
What, who, how, where
What the charity does:
- Education/training
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
Who the charity helps:
- The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
- Provides Services
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
Where the charity operates:
- Cambridgeshire
- Essex
- Norfolk
- Suffolk
Governance
Registration history:
- 12 December 2017: CIO registration
Organisation type:
CIO
Other names:
- SUFFOLK LAW CENTRE STEERING GROUP (Working name)
Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
- 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
- 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
Land and property:
This charity owns and/or leases land or property
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
9 Trustee(s)
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| Professor Gareth Howell Thomas | Chair | 18 April 2023 |
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| Codrutza Oros-Marsh | Trustee | 19 December 2025 |
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| Andrew James Donnelly | Trustee | 10 December 2024 |
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| Carole Ann Parry-Jones LLB Hons | Trustee | 18 April 2023 |
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| Samantha Jane Katheryn Gallagher | Trustee | 18 April 2023 |
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| Jemma Anne Jones | Trustee | 18 April 2023 |
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| Stevan Harry Stratton | Trustee | 18 April 2023 |
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| Dr James Sandbach | Trustee | 18 April 2023 |
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| Monica Ruth Kurnatowska | Trustee | 18 April 2023 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 31/03/2021 | 31/03/2022 | 31/03/2023 | 31/03/2024 | 31/03/2025 | ||
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Total gross income | £575.76k | £454.78k | £476.82k | £532.05k | £328.27k | |
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Total expenditure | £451.01k | £503.75k | £523.50k | £407.87k | £413.24k | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | £6.00k | £10.81k | £48.68k | £30.24k | |
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Income from government grants | £23.57k | £3.65k | £6.29k | £32.64k | £26.40k | |
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Income - Donations and legacies | £197.04k | N/A | N/A | £24.23k | N/A | |
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Income - Other trading activities | £0 | N/A | N/A | £0 | N/A | |
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Income - Charitable activities | £378.73k | N/A | N/A | £507.82k | N/A | |
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Income - Endowments | £0 | N/A | N/A | £0 | N/A | |
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Income - Investment | £0 | N/A | N/A | £0 | N/A | |
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Income - Other | £0 | N/A | N/A | £0 | N/A | |
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Income - Legacies | £0 | N/A | N/A | £0 | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Charitable activities | £451.01k | N/A | N/A | £407.87k | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Raising funds | £0 | N/A | N/A | £0 | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Governance | £49.06k | N/A | N/A | £13.65k | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Grants institution | £0 | N/A | N/A | £0 | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Investment management | £0 | N/A | N/A | £0 | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Other | £0 | N/A | N/A | £0 | N/A |
Accounts and annual returns
This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
| Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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| Annual return | 31 March 2025 | 04 December 2025 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2025 | 04 December 2025 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2024 | 23 December 2024 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2024 | 23 December 2024 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2023 | 18 December 2023 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2023 | 18 December 2023 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2022 | 23 November 2022 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2022 | 23 November 2022 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2021 | 27 October 2021 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2021 | 27 October 2021 | On time | Download Open in new window |