Charity

Charities depend on the people who run them. We offer a tailor-made, personal service for our charity clients. They span every sector from arts, almshouses and animal welfare to education, emergency services, medical, military, religious, sports science.

We’re proud to act for hundreds of national and international charities, clubs, societies, institutions, social enterprises and not-for-profit organisations. Among other things, we’ve supported them with:

• Setting up, incorporating and dissolving charities
• Regulation and governance issues to help maximise their impact and relevance
• Updating constitutions
• Devising and implementing mergers and amalgamations
• A broad range of commercial property transactions
• Employment matters
• Guidance on GDPR matters
• Permanent endowment
• Schemes and orders
• Dispute resolution (including help in managing trustee disputes)
• Managing legacies and tax issues when a charity is appointed as an executor or made a beneficiary
• Fundraising, grants and commercial relationships
• Operations, contracts and tax (including Gift Aid)
• Trustee mentoring and training
• All aspects of safeguarding for vulnerable people who come into contact with the organisations, including audits and investigations.

We also have strong links to charitable regulators, including the Charity Commission and the Privy Council.