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Charity Solicitors in Essex and Suffolk
As charities become more sophisticated, and the issues facing them become more complex, our clients need us to have a real understanding of their wants and aims. Our Charity Solicitors are here to help you achieve your aims by delivering specialist advice and practical solutions in an efficient and user-friendly way.
Practical solutions and specialist legal advice for charities
With 15 years’ specialist experience in advising charities, we have in-depth experience in legal and business advisory issues such as:
- Setting up a charity – offering structural advice for charities and assisting in the process of registration with the Charity Commission
- Helping charities ensure that their constitution is kept up-to-date
- Maximising the effectiveness of fundraising and lottery applications
- Negotiating funding agreements
- Assisting with the process of identifying and cementing commercial partnerships
- Advising on charitable mergers and reorganizations
- Pre-empting and assisting with Charity Commission reviews and investigations
- Offering assistance regarding compliance with Charity Commission orders and schemes
- Clarifying trustee duties
- Offering advice regarding Trustee remuneration
- Providing practical, relevant assistance with Project Management
- Advising on methods of maximising trading efficiency
- Assisting with charitable lotteries and promotions
- Offering advice regarding Insurances
Maximise Charitable Income
- We will help you get the best value from investment advisers in terms of advice, performance and reporting.
- We can help develop, streamline & monitor trading initiatives.
- We can advise you on fundraising initiatives which capitalise on Gift Aid and share gift reliefs.
- We can assist with regard to setting up payroll-giving with a commercial sector partner.
- We can help encourage enterprise in particular with sources of funding – e.g. European funds.
Increase Productivity / Efficiency
- We can advise on developing the skills of key managers.
- We can help you explore the possibility of joint initiatives with other charities to achieve economies of scale, generating increased negotiating power and profile.
- With an understanding of the level of available resources, we can help maximise the effectiveness of those resources.
Public Relations
- We can advise on publication of articles in partnership with sector leaders or third party specialists.
- We are able to offer advice regarding your Public Relations and help you clarify and target your PR efforts.
- We can offer advice for charities on increasing the effectiveness of your website.
Expert advice
Risk Management
- We can help you assess the training and development needs of executives and managers.
- We can offer trustee training on specific topics.
- We can assess your employee handbook and offer advice on means of improvement.
- We can help with audits and spot checks of financial systems and procedures.
- We can advise on the means to ensure that there is clarity and openness regarding potential trustee conflicts of interest.
Efficient Planning
- We can advise on the generation and management of robust and flexible business plans [both short and longer-term].
- We can help ensure that any major new activities are cleared quickly with the Charity Commission.
Charitable Trusts – Grant Making
- We can help you monitor your grants to ensure compliance with your objectives.
- We can analyse joint initiatives between grant givers and receivers in an effort to maximise the effective use of available funds in the locality/sector.
