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Charities and social enterprise legal update
Hempsons' dedicated charities and social enterprise team are happy to provide our first legal update of 2025, which will bring you up to speed on the key legal developments from our sector in recent months
Charity Commission reports on mismanagement of The Captain Tom Foundation
The Charity Commission has published a lengthy report with details of its statutory inquiry into The Captain Tom Foundation, highlighting various instances of misconduct and/or mismanagement in the administration of the charity which has garnered quite some attention in the national media.
Reforms on the way – co-operatives and community benefit societies
The Law Commission has turned its focus to co-operative societies and community benefit societies, Martyn Robinson discusses the issues.
Hempsons celebrate another great year in The Legal 500
We are delighted to announce another outstanding year for Hempsons in The Legal 500. Our team has been praised for its exceptional reputation and high quality of work over the past year.
Trust Matters
“Trust Matters”. These are the bywords of the Charity Commission for its recent report on public trust in charities, issued in July.
Charities and Social Enterprise Newsbrief: Autumn/Winter 2017 edition now available
Welcome to the Autumn/Winter 2017 edition of Hempsons Charities and Social Enterprise newsbrief
Charity Commission updates its guidance on reporting serious incidents
In the past six months the Charity Commission has launched or concluded a number of statutory inquiries where a charity has failed to report a serious incident. Then in September it updated its guidance on when and how to report a serious incident.
Spotlight: SH:24
We spoke to Dr. Gillian Holdsworth, Managing Director of SH:24 about the background of the service, its aims, and what the future holds. Dr Holdsworth is a medically qualified public health consultant who works in population health.
Choosing a brand
We all know the key role your brand plays in building awareness of your charity with its beneficiaries and in driving engagement with donors, but how do you maximise and protect its value?
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.
Opt in, opt out, shake it all about?
Charities have had something of a bumpy ride lately… and the bad news is that it’s not over yet. On top of increasing scrutiny of fundraising carried out by charities, data protection law and the Information Commissioner has now come to the fore with some big-name charities fined for data protection breaches.
Charities and Social Enterprise Newsbrief: Summer 2017 edition now available
Welcome to the Summer 2017 edition of Hempsons’ Charities and Social Enterprise newsbrief