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November 2007 - Lord Chief Justice becomes President
The London Legal Support Trust is delighted that The Rt. Hon. The Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, the Lord Chief Justice , has agreed to become our President.
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The 3rd London Legal Sponsored Walk
The 3rd London Legal walk was held on 14 May 2007. Over 1800 lawyers registered to walk and they raised over £200,000 for London’s legal advice charities.
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2007 Sponsored Walk
The 2007 sponsored walk will be held on Monday May 14th starting at 5.30 at the Royal Courts of Justice and once again ending at the Law Society. Both premises are being provided free of charge and the walk will be sponsored by Sony Ericsson.
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For further details of the walk and of how you can support the Trust please contact Bob Nightingale:
chair@Londonlegalsupporttrust.org.uk.
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2006 - Fundraising Overview
2006 was a good second year for the Trust. The sponsored walk finally raised over £95,000 for London’s legal advice charities while the donations from Allen & Overy’s ‘client account interest’ scheme amounted to over £90,000.
Other donations, including £15,000 from Lovells and sizeable donations from Dechert and Blackstone Chambers brought the Trust’s fundraising to over £200,000 .
Sponsorship of the walk by Holman Fenwick & Willan and Weil, Gothsal & Manges as well as free facilities and administration provided by Clifford Chance, Allen & Overy, Lovells and Simmons & Simmons meant that the outgoings accounted for less than 1% of fundraising.
The largest grants out were made to keep services running while sustainable funding could be found. These included grants to Springfield Law Centre (£20,000), Lawworks mediation (£10,000), Release’s London outreach services ( £6,785) and Hackney Marshes (LAW) project (£5,000).
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New Legal Services Planned in East London
The London Legal support Trust has committed £145,000 for three years to develop new free legal services in East London.
The Project, due to start in April 2007 will be led by Tower Hamlets Law Centre. The aim is to develop new Law Centre type services in Barking & Dagenham, Havering and Waltham Forest while ‘joining up’ services in Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Newham.
Trust Chair, Bob Nightingale says that ‘The Trust is delighted to support the initiative. In East London, there is exceptionally high need in the inner Boroughs and very little in the way of quality social welfare legal services in the outer Boroughs. Tower Hamlets Law Centre will lead an organisation of new and existing services that will enable the area to lever new resources.’
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2006 London Legal Sponsored 10k Walk
A very big Thank You to all those who took part in the 2006 London Legal sponsored walk, to those who helped to stage the event and to those who sponsored walkers.
Over 800 lawyers took part in the walk raising over £90,000 for legal advice charities in London and the Home Counties.
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Client Account Interest Scheme Exceeds Projections
In the Summer of 2005, Allen & Overy announced that they would donate all proceeds of accumulation of their client accounts to charity. The funds produced are donated to the London Legal Support Trust.
The funding to be produced was estimated to be £75,000 p.a.. However, the first full 6 months has produced £54,365.43, far exceeding expectations.
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Client Account Interest Scheme
On Tuesday May 3rd , Allen & Overy announced their intention to donate the funds generated from additional interest created by pooling their client account holdings to the Trust.
This is a fantastic initiative by Allen & Overy. Guy Beringer, the senior partner estimates that it will generate over £200,000 over the next 3 years for the Trust to use in support of London’s voluntary legal sector.
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London's streets paved with gold for legal charity walkers
City lawyers turned out in force on 18th April 2005 to raise funds for London’s voluntary legal agencies including Law Centres and advice agencies.
Led by the two of Britain’s most senior judges, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Woolf; and the Master of the Rolls, the Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, over 200 City lawyers joined 100 voluntary sector lawyers and caseworkers to walk 10 km around London’s legal landmarks.
The walk contained some real legal heavyweights including Law Lords and City firm senior partners and raised over £25,000 for the charities.
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2004/05 Newsletter
Our newsletter, which covers all the important news for the Trust in 2004/05, is now available to download in PDF format.
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