The Legal Education Foundation

Analysis

The Legal Education Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in May 1976, 50 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. It says it makes grants to organisations and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending June 2025, The Legal Education Foundation reported income of £6.3m and spending of £20.1m, spending 316% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2021 to June 2025, income grew from £5.3m to £6.3m (+20%), an average of +4.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income rose by 131%. Over the whole period it spent 194% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, The Legal Education Foundation sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 97% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 98th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Duke of Kent School (£6.3m), The University of Chicago Booth School of Business (£6.4m) and Keele University Students' Union (£6.3m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from investments 84% and donations and legacies 16%. Charitable activities took 67% of spending and raising funds 5.2%. Grants to other organisations totalled £10.4m. Reserves of £275.2m would cover about 162 months of spending at that rate. It employed 26 people.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.