Headed by Gerald Kidd (Partner), this department advises a wide range of charities, with particular expertise in the field of religious organisations, on matters including drafting and amendment of governing documents, dealings with the Charity Commission and other official bodies, trustees' powers, fundraising and trading legacy matters.
Please Click Here to read our Charities Department Newsletter for July 2011.
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The constituent firms which form Pothecary Witham Weld have played an integral role in the civil law formation of many ecclesiastical and related institutions, in particular, setting up charities and, today, continues to provide advice to religious and secular organisations in wide ranging areas.
Organisations such as schools, hospitals, religious and other institutions have their own special needs for legal advice and assistance. Many have undergone or are facing important changes in the way they are run, some taking direct responsibility for management of their own affairs for the first time. Change brings new opportunities and new problems.
Pothecary Witham Weld has enormous experience in providing specialist advice to religious and civil institutions. Listed below are examples of some of the areas where organisations can turn to us for legal assistance:
- Amalgamations and Closures
- Charity Creation and Amendment
- Contemplative Communities and their special status
- Conveyancing and General Property matters
- Ecumenical Projects
- Education Matters
- Employment and Staffing Matters
- Formation and Continuing Administration
- Government Grants and Subsidies
- Landlord and Tenant Issues
- Parish Social Clubs and liquor licensing applications
- Planning
- Relations with Local Authorities and Government
Bodies
- Statutory Obligations
- Taxation
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Providing advice to charities has been at the heart of Pothecary Witham Weld's constituents practices since their respective foundations many years ago. Clients can, therefore, rely on our extensive experience, not only when establishing a Charity, as a traditional trust or a company, but in dealing with the many matters which arise in the life of a Charity, such as acquisition and disposal of capital assets, including premises, employing staff, governance issues and Trustees' powers and dealing with the Revenue or the Charity Commission.
Pothecary Witham Weld can help even if it is necessary to wind up the fund and transfer assets to other charitable causes. In particular, charity trustees have wide responsibilities and need sound advice. Pothecary Witham Weld has particular expertise in advising religious charities.
Pothecary Witham Weld is able to provide legal advice and assistance in these areas:
- Establishment and Administration of Charitable Trusts and Companies
- Establishment and Administration of Associated Companies for Trading and Gift Aiding of Profits
- Registration with the Charity Commission
- Fundraising Regulations
- Applications to the Charity Commission for Schemes and Trust Funds to be applied cy-pres
- Advice on Gift Aid and other methods of donation
- Helping with Investments - advice on how to handle them, dealings with stockbrokers, client agreements with brokers, use of nominee companies, delegation of management, what investments are authorised, ethical investment
- Interpretation of Trustees Powers and Discretions
- Liability to Register for VAT
- Liability of Trustees for their action
- Liaison with Accountants on Preparation of Charity Accounts for submission to the Revenue and the Charity Commission
- Recovery of Tax
- Review of Proposed or Actual Activities to ensure Exclusively Charitable nature
- Vesting of Land in the Official Custodian for Charities
- Charitable Land Transactions
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Church and Charities
