Law, Leisure And Learning
Charity 1091447
Overview
Summary
Law, Leisure And Learning appears to operate as a broad neighbourhood support hub rather than a single-purpose charity. Its model combines learning, practical advice, personal development, recreation and material reuse for residents in parts of the West Midlands. The organisation’s distinctive role may be its attempt to address barriers that interact in everyday life—skills, employment, legal problems, welfare needs and access to community resources—through accessible, locally oriented provision.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Handsworth
Confidence: high
Direct evidence supports a current Handsworth base and service activity there. The organisation's website describes it as serving the Handsworth community and based in the core of Handsworth; its services page identifies a Handsworth-based hostel/refuge. A current Community RePaint listing also confirms that Law, Leisure and Learning operates an appointment-based paint-reuse scheme in Handsworth. This makes Handsworth the organisation's principal Birmingham operational geography, rather than merely a correspondence address.
- Law, Leisure and Learning official website, homepage
The organisation says it is 'Serving the community of Handsworth', is 'based in the Handsworth area of Birmingham' and gives its address in Handsworth. - Law, Leisure and Learning official website, services page
The organisation describes its refuge/hostel as being based in Handsworth and lists its services, including youth provision, training, employment support, clothing distribution and paint reuse. - Community RePaint, Sandwell and Soho scheme listing
The listing identifies Law, Leisure and Learning as the operator of the scheme, gives a Handsworth address, states that visits are by appointment, and says the scheme collects paint from traders, retailers and manufacturers. - Charity Commission accounts and trustees' annual report for year ended 31 March 2025
The report records the charity's registered office in Handsworth, Birmingham.
Remaining uncertainties
- The available evidence strongly indicates a neighbourhood-based operational base in Handsworth, but it does not identify the precise Birmingham locations at which each training, advice, youth, employment or distribution service is currently delivered.
- The Charity Commission's current return says that the charity operates in Birmingham City, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton. This supports a regional overall footprint, but no current service sites or delivery arrangements in Walsall or Wolverhampton were identified.
- Community RePaint describes the scheme's catchment as 'Sandwell and Soho'. This evidences operational reach beyond Handsworth through the paint-reuse partnership, but does not establish a separate Birmingham operational site or justify assigning another supplied Birmingham ward.
- The organisation's own website is accessible but presents itself as a site with a 'New Website Coming Soon'; some project descriptions may not have been recently updated. Its current physical operation is nevertheless independently supported by the Community RePaint listing and the 2025 charity filing.
Additional evidence needed
- A current timetable, referral information or service-delivery report showing where training, advice, youth activities, employment support and clothing distribution are delivered.
- A current annual report or impact report identifying beneficiary and delivery locations across Birmingham, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton.
- Confirmation from the organisation of which activities remain active in Handsworth and whether it uses any additional venues, outreach locations or partner premises.
Areas of work
- Amateur Sport
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
Who they help
- Children/young People
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Human Resources
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A multi-barrier support model
The available evidence suggests the organisation treats education, employment support, legal advice and welfare guidance as connected needs rather than separate issues. Training and job-search support sit alongside a legal drop-in service, childcare advice and social-welfare advisory.
Why it matters
This indicates a potentially important bridging role for people whose progress in learning or work may be constrained by unresolved legal, financial or family issues.
Show evidence
“The charity's objects include education and training, mediation, and a law centre for people with legal problems.”
Source:Charity Commission“Activities include ICT, Basic Skills, ESOL, job search, CV writing, childcare and social and welfare advisory, and free drop-in legal advice.”
Source:Organisation
Locally rooted, with a wider stated reach
The organisation appears designed around particular West Midlands neighbourhoods—Handsworth, West Bromwich and Winson Green—while retaining permission to serve more widely. This may allow it to concentrate trust and local knowledge where need is understood to be greatest.
Why it matters
Its geographic focus is central to understanding its likely relationships: it may be most valuable as a connector between residents and services that are otherwise fragmented or difficult to access.
Show evidence
“The area of benefit particularly includes residents in Handsworth, West Bromwich and Winson Green.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity's objects refer to inhabitants of the West Midlands, particularly but not exclusively those in the area of benefit.”
Source:Charity Commission
Community infrastructure includes resource reuse
The paint and discontinued-lines recycling activity may indicate that the organisation sees community benefit in practical resource redistribution as well as formal advice and learning. It potentially supports schools and community projects with materials they might otherwise struggle to obtain.
Why it matters
This is a distinctive signal of an organisation that may contribute to local capacity indirectly, by resourcing other community activity rather than only serving individuals.
Show evidence
“Paint and other discontinued lines are distributed free to communities, community projects and schools.”
Source:Organisation“The charity helps through buildings, facilities or open space, human resources, and advocacy, advice or information.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Whether all listed services are current, regularly delivered and available in each named area.
- Which communities use the organisation most, and whether children, young people and ethnic or racial minority groups are reached in practice.
- Whether the legal, mediation and learning services are delivered directly or through partner organisations.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports or service data showing delivery volumes, locations, outcomes and beneficiary groups.
- Information on referral routes, delivery partners, staffing and the scale of the recycling activity.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Deliver training courses in ICT, Basic Skills, capacity building, and ESOL. Personal DevelopmentProgrammes, Team buiding skills along with sports, Free drop-in service for impartial legal advice, job search, CV Writing, further Education, childcare and social and welfare advisory. Recycling: paint and other discontinued lines distrubuted free to, community, community projects and schools.
Charity objects
(A) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE WEST MIDLANDS IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THOSE RESIDENTS IN HANDSWORTH, WEST BROMWICH AND WINSON GREEN (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE "AREA OF BENEFIT") BY THE PROVISION AND FACILITATION OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING (B) THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE (C) TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT AND WELFARE OF INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT BY THE PROVISION OF MEDIATION SERVICE TO ASSIST PEOPLE IN RESOLVING DISPUTES WITHOUT THE NEED FOR LITIGATION (D) TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT AND WELFARE OF INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT BY THE PROVISION OF A LAW CENTRE FOR PEOPLE WITH LEGAL PROBLEMS