Charities and trading

Hempsons’ Charities and Social Enterprise Newsbrief: Autumn/Winter 2018

Welcome to our autumn/winter 2018 edition of Hempsons’ Charities and Social Enterprise Newsbrief.

New Year partner and associate promotions

We are delighted to announce a new partner and several associate promotions, providing a major boost to our healthcare advisory, healthcare litigation, commercial and real estate teams.

Newsflash: Charity Commission publishes report on tackling abuse and mismanagement in the charity sector

Social Enterprise: all aboard?

It was something I heard debated around the time the Social Value Act was being put together: an earlier draft of the legislation had included a definition of ‘social enterprise’ with the idea being that only social enterprises (with a capital ‘S’ and a capital ‘E’) could benefit. However, this was ultimately rejected in the parliamentary process leaving open the possibility that anyone who wanted to (even the private sector) could offer social value as part of a public sector procurement process and get the same credit for it as a CIC or a charity or someone else traditionally seen as part of the ‘not for profit’ sector.

The Charities Bill: What difference does it make to our charity?

The Law Commission has made a series of recommendations for legislative change to the Charities Act 2011 following extensive consultation.

Trust Matters

“Trust Matters”. These are the bywords of the Charity Commission for its recent report on public trust in charities, issued in July.

Trustees – Understand & Improve your Governance – Ian Hempseed to speak at Sheffield Law Society event

Sheffield & District Law Society are hosting a talk for charity Trustees where Hempsons' Ian Hempseed will be speaking. The aim of the talk is to help charity trustees understand their responsibilities and the demarcation of roles between them and the Chief Executive.