## **Urban Lawyers**
Annual Report and Accounts for period ended 30 September 2024
Charity no 1165914
## **CONTENTS**
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|Charity details and trustees|3|
|Trustees’ report|4|
|Independent Examiners Report|5|
|Statement of financial activities|6|
|Balance sheet|7|
|Notes to the accounts|8|
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## **CHARITY DETAILS AND TRUSTEES**
for the period ended 30 September 2024
**Trustees:** Tunde Okewale Dexter Dash **Charity number:** 1165914 **Registered office** 34 Warwick Road **and address:** Rainhaml RM13 9XU **Principal bankers:** Barclays Bank Leicester LE87 2BB
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## **TRUSTEES’ REPORT TO THE MEMBERSHIP**
for the period ended 30 September 2024
## **Status**
Urban Lawyers is a registered charity was incorporated and registered as a charity on the 8th March 2016.
## **Charitable Objects and activities.**
The charity’s objects (‘Objects’) are to advance the education of young people in the criminal justice system and the legal profession.
## **Responsibilities of the Trustees**
The trustees are responsible for preparing the trustees’ report and financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
The law applicable to charities in England and Wales requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and of the incoming resources and application of resources of the charity for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:
- select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
- observe the methods and principles in the Statement of Recommended Practice (Accounting and Reporting by Charities) (the Charities SORP);
- make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
- state whether applicable United Kingdom Accounting Standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and
- prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in operation.
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 and the provisions of the trust deed. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
- In so far as the directors are aware:
- there is no relevant audit information of which the charity's independent examiner is unaware; and
- the directors have taken all steps that they ought to have taken to make themselves aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the auditor is aware of that information.
Approved by the Board of Trustees
Dr Tunde Okewale OBE Chairman
03.06 ___ __________ 2025
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## **INDEPENDENT EXAMINERS’ REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF**
## **Urban Lawyers**
Year Ended 30 September 2024
I report on the accounts of the charity for the year ended 30 September 2024, which are set out on pages 6 to 8.
## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 30 September 2024.
As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
- the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
- the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
**Mark E Freeman ACA, Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden London WC2H 9JQ**
**___ ________ 2025 3 June**
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## **STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES**
for the period ended 30 September 2024
||**2024**
**Total Funds**
**£**|**2023**
**Total Funds**
**£**|
|---|---|---|
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|**Notes**|||
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|**Incoming resources**
Donations and grants
Large grants
Activities for generating funds:
Fundraising events
Interest and Miscellaneous
**Total incoming resources**|||
||11,335
0|11,383
0|
||||
||0
0|0
0|
||**11,335**|**11,383**|
||||
|**Resources expended:**
Charitable expenditure
Governance & Support Costs
Total resources expended|||
||16,102
540|17,834
0|
||**16,642**|**17,834**|
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|Net outgoing resources for the year
Total Funds as at 1 Oct
Total funds at 30 September|**(5,307)**
10,394|**(6,451)**
16,845|
||**5,087**|**10,394**|
The notes on page 8 form part of these accounts
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## **STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION**
As at 30 September 2024
||**2024**
**£**
**£**|**2024**
**£**
**£**|**2023**
**£**
**£**|**2023**
**£**
**£**|**2023**
**£**
**£**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Notes**||||||
|**Fixed assets**
Tangible fixed assets
**Current assets**
Cash at bank and in hand
**Liabilities**
Amount falling due within one year||||||
|||0|||0|
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||5,087||10,394|||
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||0||0|||
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|**Net current (liabilities)**
**Net assets / (liabilities)**||5,087|||10,394|
|||5,087|||10,394|
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|**Funds and reserves**
Restricted Funds
Unrestricted Funds
**Total funds and reserves**||||||
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|||5,087|||10,394|
|||5,087|||10,394|
The notes on page 8 form part of these accounts
The financial statements were approved by the Board on ___. ________ 2025 and signed on its 03.06 behalf by:
Dr. Tunde Okewale OBE Chairman
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## **NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS**
for the period ended 30 September 2024
## **1 Accounting policies**
The accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention, as modified by the inclusion of investments at market value, and in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011. Applicable United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice) and the Statement of Recommended Practice "Accounting and Reporting by Charities" (SORP 2010) have been followed in these accounts.
## **(a) Accounting convention**
The accounts and notes are prepared under the historical cost convention.
## **(b) Recognition of income**
Restricted and unrestricted income is accounted for on an accruals basis. Donations are accounted for gross when received. Grants for immediate expenditure are accounted when they become receivable.
## **(c) Recognition of expenditure**
Restricted and unrestricted expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis. Expenditure is allocated directly to the activity of which it relates, including support costs which can be identified as being an integral part of direct charitable expenditure.
Management and administrative costs are those costs identified as related to the management of the charity or where it is reasonable to assume that such costs cannot be attributed as a direct charitable expense. Fundraising and publicity costs are those related to general publicity and fundraising if such had taken place. Publicity related to a specific activity of the charity is regarded as direct charitable expenditure.
## **(d) Fund accounting**
Restricted funds arise from grants and sponsorship awarded where conditions are related to their expenditure. Income and expenditure is treated as per notes (b) and (c).
## **2 Management and Administration**
There were no management or administration costs associated with operating the charity during the year.
## **3 Taxation**
Urban Lawyers is a charitable organisation and is entitled to UK tax exemptions available to charities.
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