Charities and Governance
Good governance is the key to an efficient, successful charity. If the right structures and procedures are in place, trustees can concentrates on the work of the charity and can engage with supporters, funders, grant makers and regulators with confidence.
Our leading charities team can help you build a successful organisation, providing sound, practical advice at key stages in a charity’s development and ongoing day-to-day help and support. We have experience of all types of charity, whether set up as a trust, a company, an unincorporated association, by Royal Charter or by statute, working in many different fields.
We can help with:
- Advice upon new charitable objects
- Advice upon the right legal structure
- Setting up and registering new charities
- The incorporation of existing charities
- Advice to trustees on their duties and responsibilities
- Meeting the public benefit requirement
- Advice on the governing document and changes to it
- Advice upon property and permanent endowment
- The drafting and adoption of appropriate policies
- Trading and the use of trading subsidiaries
- Fundraising and Gift Aidv
- Grant and loan agreementsv
- Mergers and working with other organisations
- Re-organisations
- Regulatory issues and dealing with the Charity Commission
- Winding Up
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