OSCR Scottish charity profile

Fife Law Centre

ActiveCharity number SC039780
Registered8 August 2008
Main locationFife
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC039780
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Wider, but within one local authority area
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
6
Postcode
KY5 9AF

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Fife Law Centre provides free legal advice, assistance and representation to persons in Fife who, for reasons of disadvantage, are unable to access those services from other sources.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the promotion of equality and diversity
  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • Older People
  • People with disabilities or health problems
  • People with a particular ethnic or racial origin

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

The company's objects are: (1) To promote access to justice and to relieve poverty by increasing the availability of, and facilitating access to, advice, assistance and legal representation, to those in need by reason of age, ill health, disability , financial hardship or other disadvantage, where such advice , assistance and representation could not readily be obtained by such persons elsewhere. (2) To advance education and citizenship and, in particular, to increase knowledge and awareness of the law in the fields of disability, mental health, community care, children, families, social work , housing, social security, personal debt, consumer matters, equal opportunity, human rights, rights of victims of crimes or accidents, immigration and asylum , employment, and associated fields, and to contribute to law reform. (3) To promote, establish, operate and/or support other similar projects and programmes, which further charitable purposes for the benefit of the community.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£323,481£306,798628 November 2025
31 March 2024£311,611£250,239610 December 2024
31 March 2023£329,378£214,179618 December 2023
31 March 2022£260,112£176,916618 January 2023
31 March 2021£269,426£179,553610 December 2021

Figures are those reported by the charity and supplied in the OSCR bulk download. Blank facts remain distinct from zero.

04 Contact record

Principal office or trustees address

Address supplied to OSCR
Unit 12, Ore Valley Business Centre, 93 Main Street, Lochgelly
Website supplied to OSCR
www.fifelawcentre.co.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

No direct external links on this profile. The official OSCR record and source documentation are available through BritDB’s dedicated source page.

05 Provenance

Source for this profile

© Crown Copyright and database right 2026. Contains information from the Scottish Charity Register supplied by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator and licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. BritDB is an independent service and does not claim to be the Scottish Charity Register.