We are walking to support access to justice for all, so people can get the help they
need, when they need it. We walk in unity under the banner of access to justice.
By registering for the London Legal Walk, you agree to abide by the following conditions.
All walk teams:
1. You and your team undertake to abide by all laws and byelaws current at the time of the Walk.
2. You and your team will abide by any reasonable instructions or requests issued by Walk organisers and/or marshals.
3. Walkers under the age of 16 must be accompanied by a responsible adult.
4. You undertake that all of your team have read and will abide by these terms and conditions.
Beneficiaries (those eligible agencies that raise funding exclusively for themselves)
1. You will provide LLST with details of a bank account that is registered to the beneficiary agency. Walk funds will only be donated to that account.
2. You will inform LLST of any offline donations made for your walkers and ensure that those are also paid in to the registered bank account notified to LLST.
3. You will ensure that all funds raised through the Walk for your agency are used for the charitable purposes described on your walk fundraising web page and in your constitution.
4. Beneficiary charities (and others eligible to join as beneficiaries) will not recruit walkers to their team from law firms or chambers unless those walkers are a trustee/director, staff member or volunteer of the charity or have another very close connection (e.g. family member of a staff member).
5. You will not request that other teams nominate your agency as part beneficiary unless provided with permission in writing (email) to do so by LLST. Eligible charities are those which provide or support legal advice or advocacy.
Who can join our events as beneficiaries to raise 100% funding for themselves?
To join our events and raise 100% funding for your organisation, you need to meet the three requirements outlined below:
1) One of your agency’s main focuses must be providing legal advice and/or promoting, campaigning and training within free legal advice sector.
2) London and the South East must be one of your main areas of focus.
3) Your agency structure must be within one of the following groups; • A registered, exempt or excepted charity • A charitable incorporated organisation (CIO) • A CIC limited by guarantee with a minimum of three Directors and an asset lock in your constitution – note that CICs limited by shares are NOT eligible. • A charitable company -registered as a limited by guarantee company with a minimum three Directors. • Cooperatives – Cooperatives are people-centred enterprises owned, controlled and run by and for their members to realise their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations.
Who can join our events as donors?
1) Law Firms who are based and/or have branches in London and the South East (including American firms)
2) In house legal departments
3) Barrister chambers that are based and/or have branches in London and the South East
4) Judiciary
5) Government legal departments and other government departments
6) Local authority departments
7) Greater London Authority
8) Legal services companies (Recruitment agencies, translation companies etc.)
9) Media/publishing and tech companies who have interest in legal sector
10) Educational establishments (Law schools)
11) Any other UK-based companies or other entities and organisations that have interest in the legal sector and have London and the South East as one of their main focus. Any international company that has branches and/base in London and/or the South East can also join our events.
LLST reserves the right to refuse entry to the Walk to any proposed beneficiary whose objects are not charitable or whose governing body does not meet the requirement of a minimum number of three trustees or directors.
LLST reserves the right, at its absolute discretion, to admit charities as beneficiaries that are not legal advice agencies but who will be raising 50% or more of their funds for LLST.
Please note that LLST may use its discretion to refuse an organisation that fits the above criteria if we believe that accepting such an organisation may bring reputational or any other types of damage to our events.
LLST also has the discretion to make exceptions to the above criteria.
If you are not sure whether you meet the above criteria or not, please email [email protected]
Please find our acceptance and refusal of donations policy here