Our specialist charity solicitors offer expert legal advice on many aspects of charity law.
Charities & Philanthropy Legal Services
As a third sector organisation, choosing a legal partner can be difficult. You need someone who can offer sound, practical advice and make sure you comply with all the regulations. But you also need someone who recognises your distinctive requirements as a not-for-profit and understands why you do what you do. The head of our team has worked in the third sector for 25 years, four of them as a lawyer with the Charity Commission, and has experience as the trustee of a charity so you can be sure we really understand the sector, the way in which it works and the way it is regulated.
Forward thinking responsible businesses, influential donors, and families
with new philanthropic enterprises are applying their wealth, connections, and
expertise to confront the challenges that impact the causes that matter to them the most.
All charities from well known international charities to smaller community foundations
are having to reinvent how they engage with those they depend on for funding and
involvement and how they reach out to their beneficiaries.
Social Enterprises, Clubs and Societies
The third sector is a broad spectrum of organisations. It includes many that are not registered charities. Some are exempt charities subject to the general law relating to charities but not to the regulation of the Charity Commission or to most of the provisions of the Charities Act 2011. Others are excepted charities that are not registered but are nevertheless regulated by the Charity Commission.
Philanthropy
Increasing concerns around sustainability and inequality have led to individuals, families and businesses wishing to give effectively and in a more strategic way. This means we are advising clients every day on the choices they can make to achieve their philanthropic goals. This is core to what we do in using our skills, our wider capabilities and connections for good purpose.