Charity Details

Ceased date: 19 March 2026

Legal Services Agency

SC017160Registered charity from 02 July 1990

Notes:

This charity has wound up/dissolved.

Charity Information:

Address 2nd Floor
Savoy House
140 Sauchiehall Street
Glasgow

Postcode G2 3DH

Website www.lsa.org.uk

Regulatory Type Standard

Reason For Removal

Object:

The SCIO's purposes are: To relieve those in need by reason of their age, physical or mental ill health, lack of capacity, disability, ethnicity, financial hardship or poverty, social exclusion or other disadvantage by increasing the availability of, facilitating access to, or providing or funding legal advice, assistance and representation for such individuals, or their relatives and carers (but only where they live in or have a connection with, Scotland); To prevent or relieve poverty, to advance citizenship and community development and to advance human rights and equalities (where the advancement of human rights relates, in particular, but not exclusively to, the promotion of the integrity and dignity of the person, availability of civil remedies and the advancement of the right to respect for private and family life enshrined by the European Convention on Human Rights, and where the advancement of equalities relates to the prevention of discrimination on the grounds of, or promotion of diversity relating to, any of the protected characteristics), by increasing the availability of, facilitating access to, funding or providing of legal advice, assistance and representation in such a way that enhances the ability of otherwise disadvantaged individuals to understand and pursue their rights and obtain appropriate remedies; and To advance education and to increase knowledge and awareness and facilitate access to remedies in regard to legal rights and responsibilities in the fields of social welfare and housing law, human rights, equalities, incapacity and mental health law and relevant public and private law remedies, including (without prejudice to that generality) legal rights and responsibilities relating to asylum, homelessness, social security, debt, consumer matters, equal opportunities and equalities, immigration, the rights of victims of crimes or accidents, employment rights, children, social work, mental health and incapacity, and such other fields of which knowledge awareness and access to remedies requires to be enhanced as shall be determined by the charity trustees from time-to-time.

Operations:

What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:

Provide Legal Advice and representation and raise awareness of Human Rights

Charity Status: Removed

Constitutional Form: SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

Constitutional Form Date: 08 Jul 2025

Previous Constitutional Form: Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)

Previous Constitutional Form Date: 02 Jul 1990

Main Operating Location: Glasgow City

Number of Staff: 30

Number of Volunteers: 1-50

Purposes: "the prevention or relief of poverty", "the advancement of education", "the advancement of citizenship or community development", "the advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation", "the promotion of equality and diversity", "the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage"

Beneficiaries: "Children or young people", "Older People", "People with disabilities or health problems", "No specific group, or for the benefit of the community"

Types Of Activity Undertaken: "It carries out activities or services itself"

Annual Submissions:

Year End	Income	Expenditure	Annual Return Received	Accounts Received	Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
31 Mar 2021	£1,095,866	£1,275,478	13 Oct 2021	Yes
31 Mar 2022	£1,193,328	£1,310,744	19 Sept 2022	Yes
31 Mar 2023	£1,363,997	£1,553,102	10 Jan 2024	Yes
31 Mar 2024	£1,413,498	£1,463,983	17 Dec 2024	Yes
31 Mar 2025	£1,286,713	£1,372,461	17 Dec 2025	Yes	Download
If an annual return has been received on time (within nine months of the Year End Date), the 'Annual Return Received' box is green . If an annual return is late, the box is red .

Income and Expenditure:

Charity Trustees:

First Name	Last Name
No charity trustee information available
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First Name

Last Name

No charity trustee information available

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