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Charities and the law

  • Sonia Sodha

    Charities need to be alert to dodgy practices

    Sonia Sodha
    The government has an old-fashioned view of charity – but the charities don’t do enough to change that
  • Creative Partnerships

    Arab dosh gives Geordie charity a hand

    All manner of foreign potentates acknowledge the work of a group which chucked London for a much happier time by the Tyne. The Northerner's arts ace Alan Sykes has the news.

  • Cancer Research Shrewsbury

    Charities Q&A: Leaving legacies to charity

    In the latest in a series of pieces giving advice to the voluntary sector, Laura Soley of Bates Wells and Braithwaite solicitors answers questions on legacy fundraising
  • Charities Q&A: employing overseas workers (Marie Curie charity)

    Charities Q&A: Employing overseas workers

    In the latest in our series of legal advice to the voluntary sector, we discuss employing workers from overseas

  • A polling station in Howden on July 10 2008. David Davis triggered a byelection in the constituency when he stood down as shadow home secretarty in June. Photograph: John Giles/PA Wire

    Charities Q&A: Elections

    In the latest in a series of pieces giving legal advice to the voluntary sector, Rosamund McCarthy, partner at Bates Wells and Braithwaite solicitors, answers questions on charities and elections
  • Handshake

    Charities Q&A: procurement, contracts and grants

    In the latest in a series of pieces giving legal advice to the voluntary sector, Julian Blake, a partner, and Philippa Hart, a solicitor at Bates Wells and Braithwaite solicitors, answer questions on procurement, contracts and grants
  • Part of Sissinghurst Castle in Sissinghurst, Kent, owned by the National Trust

    Charities Q&A: property

    In the latest in a series of pieces giving legal advice to the voluntary sector, Lesley Robinson, a partner at Bates Wells and Braithwaite solicitors (www.bwbllp.com), answers questions on charities and property
  • It is a common myth that charities don't have to pay taxes – a number of activities are taxable

    Q&A: Charity tax and VAT

    In the latest of a series giving legal advice to the charity and social enterprise sector, Bill Lewis, consultant at Bates Wells and Braithwaite, answers questions on charity tax and VAT
  • Q&A: Setting up a Community Interest Company

    In the latest of a series of pieces giving legal advice to the charity and social enterprise sector, Tom Pratt, a solicitor at Bates Wells and Braithwaite solicitors, looks in more detail at Community Interest Companies
  • Inside a charity shop

    Q&A: Charities and trading

    In the seventh of a series of pieces giving legal advice to the charity and social enterprise sector, a solicitor answers questions on charities and trading

  • Q&A: Charities and disputes

    In the fifth of a series of pieces giving legal advice to the charity and social enterprise sector, a solicitor answers questions on charities and disputes

  • Social enterprise

    Q&A: Social enterprises and the law

    Iain Cathcart, of Bates Wells and Braithwaite solicitors, answers questions on social enterprises

  • Charity fundraising

    Q&A: Charity fundraising and the law

    Solicitors Luke Fletcher and Alana Lowe-Petraske explain what every charity should know about fundraising
  • hospital volunteers

    Q&A: Charities, volunteers and the law

    Lucy McLynn looks at the relationship between third sector organisations and their volunteers
  • Fancy dress costume on desk at broker firm ICAP

    Q&A: Charities, trustees and the law

    In the first of a series of pieces giving legal advice to the voluntary sector, Alice Faure Walker answers questions of qualification, commitment and delegation

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