The Access to Justice Foundation can provide your organisation (and its successors) with a written indemnity for your unclaimed client account fund donations.
If your client is later traced you can ask us for the funds back we will return them, making your donations risk free, and compliant.
We can provide a written indemnity for all unclaimed client account fund donations. If your client resurfaces you can ask us for the funds back, making your donation risk free.
The COVID-19 pandemic uncovered what the free legal advice sector has feared and campaigned about, for many years. That, due to the lack of adequate investment and sustained funding, there is an extremely fragile and inconsistent level of free legal advice provision in the UK, with providers forced to deal with increasing calls for immediate assistance against a backdrop of constantly shrinking resources.
Advice deserts are an ever-growing concern and people are falling through the cracks, losing their homes, health, families and livelihoods, often simply due to their being unable to access the help that they need early enough.
With your help, the Access to Justice Foundation will raise and distribute the essential funding required to pay for the provision of a sustainable range of free legal advice services across the whole of the UK.
Your risk free donations will help to ensure that people in your community, who are facing the most challenging of times, are given access to free specialist legal advice and guidance at the time that they need it most.
The guidance tools and resources provided, have been designed by experienced consultants to support you. They adopt a best practice approach, setting out how you should deal with your residual balances in a consistent, timely and compliant manner.
The Access to Justice Foundation can provide a written indemnity for unclaimed client account donations as required, which means that if your client is later traced, we will return the donated balance to the firm.
Support a cause which correlates with your business values and objectives . Your donations will help us to provide frontline legal advice providers with the tools and resources that they need to meet the needs of vulnerable people, living in your local community.
By financially supporting the provision of early intervention, through specialist legal advice and guidance, we can help ensure that more people have their voices heard, exercise their legal rights, challenge discrimination and hold decision-makers accountable, regardless of whether they have means to pay for advice, or not.
This early support also helps to ensure that issues which might have been easily resolved do not escalate, due to lack of advice or attention, and create additional cluster issues.
Donating residual/dormant client balances helps to reduce the ongoing administrative burden associated with holding balances for any length of time. Your audited accounts will clearly evidence that you are adhering to regulatory accounts rules, and enable you to approach each each year with an up to date and compliant client balance ledger.
Funds can be transferred to:
Account name: The Access to Justice Foundation
Account number: 0001 8272
Sort code: 40-52-40
Please ensure that ‘UCA’ and your organisation’s name is included in the transfer reference.
Please email clientbalances@atjf.org.uk with your donation details so that a receipt and indemnity can be sent.
Alternatively, if a bank transfer is not possible cheques may be forwarded to:
The Access to Justice Foundation
Box 19, 101 Clerkenwell Road, London EC1R 5BX
We will issue a receipt, and an indemnity for sums over £500.
We can provide indemnities amounts less that £500 are available upon request.
Please include a note with the client name and internal reference number.
The Access to Justice Foundation can provide you with a written indemnity for your unclaimed client account fund donations.
If your client is later traced you can ask us for the funds back we will return them, making your donations risk free, and compliant.
The Access to Justice Foundation is a company limited by guarantee (No. 6714178) and a Registered Charity in England and Wales (No. 1126147) and Scotland (No. SC048584). Registered office: 10 Queen Street Place, London EC4R 1AG.
