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Constitutional & Governance

Constitutional and governance structures have to be effective to enable not-for-profit organisations to work to their best ability in challenging commercial and regulatory environments.

We ensure that our clients are kept up to date with developments in law and good practice and adopt constitutional and governance arrangements that are practical and efficient.

We bring this approach to our advice on:

• Review of constitutions

• Refreshing internal governance arrangements to meet latest best practice expectations

• Establishing or re-organising group structures

• Rationalising subsidiary or related charities and trading companies

• Dealing with permanent endowment

• Joint working arrangements between charities and other voluntary sector organisations

• Mergers and hive-offs

• Incorporating trusts and unincorporated associations to limit potential liabilities of trustees

• Dissolution and closure of activities