South Wales Law Centre

The South Wales Law Centre, t/a The Speakeasy Law Centre, aims to relieve poverty and distress in S Wales. The Speakeasy Law Centre provides free legal advice regarding debts and problems with welfare benefits, housing and employment.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

In Wales

• Cardiff
• Vale of Glamorgan

Area of benefit in its governing document: Cardiffblaenau Gwentrhondda Cynon Taffmerthyr Tydfil

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £298,919 and spent £333,461.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Down 32%, from £441,228 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £298,919 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 112% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 3 of the 5 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 March 2025: £124,572 from 2 grants. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 32 grants to this charity since 2010, worth at least £1,600,061.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

6 trustees run the charity.

• Christina Joy Kio-bennettAppointed 10 February 2023
• David HortonAppointed 12 June 2020
• David William Ronald ArnoldAppointed 28 July 2026
• John Harrington LoosemoreAppointed 1 April 2011
• Madeline Rose ReesAppointed 10 February 2023
• Nkini PuleiAppointed 23 June 2016

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1140949

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

18 March 2011

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 03/03/2011 as amended on 17 Apr 2019

Company number

07550894This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.speakeasy.cymruAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Cardiff

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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