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January 2012 Issue 7

  • Business Rates Relief and Risks Relating to Empty Charity Premises
  • Charity updates
  • Accessing Funds for Future Growth
  • Co-location: Sharing premises to save money?
  • Local Authorities must have regard to actual cost of care when setting fee rates
  • Employment law changes coming up in 2012 that you need to know about

September 2011 Issue 6

  • How open will public services be to charities and social enterprises?
  • Care Quality Commission – Fall out from Winterbourne continues
  • Charity events
  • Equality, Diversity and the Trustee
  • Charity updates
  • Top 10 considerations when disposing of freehold charitable land and buildings

May 2011 Issue 5

  • Top 3000 Charities - press release
  • Charity events
  • Social enterprise in charities
  • Equality Act - positive action provision
  • Charity updates

February 2011 Issue 4

  • Localism Bill - 'The Community Right to Buy'
  • Two tier Code of Practice abolished with immediate effect
  • Charity Updates - Feb 2011
  • Charities and collaboration
  • The importance of written employment contracts
  • Big Society Watch

September 2010 Issue 3

  • Big Society Watch
  • Charity updates
  • Discrimination and choosing beneficiaries - the new laws
  • Contracts that make you feel good
  • Third Sector services
  • Court sets fire safety benchmark

May 2010 Issue 2

  • Acquiring employees on a TUPE transfer - problem areas
  • How secure is your land?
  • Disputed wills - is all publicity good publicity?
  • Charity Updates
  • A sting in the tail...
  • Court finds for disabled person on listed building alterations

Feb 2010 Issue 1

  • New Standard NHS Contracts – Levelling the Playing Field?
  • Is your Board imperilled by conflicts?
  • Volunteers – employees by another name?
  • Charity Updates
  • Community Foundations help out in tough economic climate
  • Intellectual peace of mind?

Sept 2009

  • Representation at disciplinary hearings: the debate continues
  • Human Resource Management How outsourcing can reduce risk and cost to Third Sector Organisations
  • Charity Updates
  • Unsuccessful Bidder – What Next?
  • Gain without pain?
  • The CIO is on its way

May 2009

  • Statutory Directors’ Duties may now be on the Cards
  • Social Enterprise - The new economy!
  • Charity Updates
  • Are you Digital Bandits?
  • Registration of Title at the Land Registry
  • Are Social Enterprises unenterprising in selecting the Right Legal Structure?

Feb 2009

  • Paperworks, Where Social & Enterprise Work Together
  • Charity Updates
  • Weathering The Economic Storm - Protect Your Legacies!
  • The Brave New World - Workplace Disputes From April
  • Supported Living & Fire Protection
  • Changing Your Mind? A Tenant's Options

October 2008

  • Hempsons' Third Sector enquiries
  • New Arrival in Third Sector team
  • Protecting your trade marks - and keeping them protected.
  • The CIO is on its way!
  • Ten things you need to know about TUPE
  • Charity Updates

January 2008

  • Hempsons' Third Sector enquiries
  • Contributing to the NHS...and calling the shots
  • Wet Floors Spell Danger
  • Lasting Powers Of Attorney - A Lasting Solution?
  • Repeal of Statutory Dispute Resolution Procedures
  • Hempsons showing its support to social enterprises at Voice08

September 2007

  • Hempsons' Third Sector enquiries
  • The Growing Influence of EU Procurement Law: risks and opportunities for third sector bodies contracting to deliver public services
  • Benefit from the next round of The Companies Act 2006
  • (Not so) Private Lives
  • IT Procurement - avoiding the pitfalls
  • The Charities Act and public benefit

April 2007

  • Never underestimate the importance of good governance
  • Charity Commission Consultation on Criminal Records Bureau Checks of Trustees of Charities
  • Outlook for Employment Law changes in 2007
  • Recent changes in Company Law relating to electronic communications
  • Major report revealing vast potential of social enterprises to reform health and social care delivery

September 2006

  • Forthcoming Training Seminars
  • The Charities Bill - will it ever be an Act?
  • Community Interest Companies
  • To Indemnify Or Not To Indemnify - That Is The Question!
  • Employment Case Round-up
  • Age Discrimination

February 2006

  • Charities Act - Things that will help
  • Charities Act - Things to look out for
  • Main provisions of the Act
  • Charities Act 2006 - The First Commencement Order

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