Cripps Harries Hall LLP
Address: Wallside House, 12 Mount Ephraim Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN1 1EG
Telephone: 01892 515121
Fax: 01892 544878
Website: www.crippslaw.com
Email: Click here to email Cripps Harries Hall LLP
Cripps Harries Hall LLP and charities
We are a leading regional law firm based in the South East, with an office in central London, providing a wide range of legal services to the charity and not for profit, public and private sectors.
Our dedicated charities team of lawyers specialise in advising charities and not for profit organisations on all aspects involved in running those organisations. The team’s expertise includes advising on charity law, property matters, property and commercial disputes, employment, corporate and commercial issues.
Many of our lawyers are personally involved with specific charities and therefore have a thorough understanding of how charities work and the issues that they face.
How we work
We make sure we understand your business and work with you to address the realities of the environment within which you operate
We recognise that cost is a key concern at the same time ensuring timely, accurate and practical legal advice
From our Tunbridge Wells base and central London office we can deliver a quality service at highly competitive rates, which are unattainable from any comparable London firm
Tailoring our service to meet your specific requirements, we ensure that we really understand your objectives and don't duplicate the work of your in house experts and other advisers
We use plain English and so avoid unnecessary technical language
We maintain our reputation for technical excellence by attracting talented and experienced lawyers to our practice, many previously from central London and City practices
How can we help you?
Charity law and governance
· Setting up a charity
· Charity mergers and takeovers
· Incorporation
· Trustees’ roles and responsibilities
· Constitutional reviews
· Risk management
· Remuneration of trustees
· Indemnity insurance for trustees
· Advising on issues with the Charity Commission such as investigations and enquiries
· Dissolving a charity
We offer trustee training to help charities comply with the new accounting and reporting practices (SORP) from the Charities Commission
Fundraising issues
· Legacy management & disputes
· Gift aid
Employment
· Contracts
· Restructuring
· Staff secondment
· Maternity, paternity and parental issues
· Status of volunteers
· Disputes and terminations
We offer an Employment Protection Scheme that combines practical advice and assistance with comprehensive insurance cover
Property
· Sales and purchases
· Leases
· Disputes
· Landlord and tenant
· Development, planning and construction issues
Commercial law
· Licensing, applications and variations
· Trading activities
· IT and intellectual property rights
· Data protection
· Working with the public sector, issues such as grants, agreements, and contracts for provision of services
· Dispute resolution
How we approach fees
We realise that cost is a major concern for you and will work closely with you to ensure that you are kept fully informed of and in control of costs. We would be pleased to arrange an introductory meeting to discuss this with you. In those areas where it is possible to give an estimate for time
and cost we will do so. In other areas we promise to keep you informed of the costs as they are incurred so that you are not faced with an unexpected bill.
We will make sure that the person with the right expertise is advising you at each stage. We will set an initial budget and will inform you when this is running out, so that the next stage can be agreed
Our clients include...
· Aid charities
· Arts and educational charities
· Care and support charities
· Community charities
· Faith charities
· Healthcare charities
· Housing associations
· Learned societies
· Maritime charities
· Sports charities, clubs and organisations
· Wildlife, environmental and conservation charities
What others say
“terrifically committed and able to handle substantial matters as quickly,
effectively and cheaply as possible”
‘Cripps Harries Hall LLP…is ”one of the few firms that has the resources to undertake the full workload it accepts”’
Legal 500
“consistently delivering quality work”
“a credible name in the market, the firm’s first class charities team ticks
all the right boxes with its sensible approach.”
“delighted clients remark that the lawyers’ personal approach is of a
very high grade, and they consistently offer accurate advice on such
areas as formations, restructuring, policy and procedures”
“He (Peter Scott) has attracted both national and international charities”
‘Clients were quick to praise the lawyers here, reporting: “They all go far beyond the call of duty, demonstrating a real interest in their client”’
Chambers UK Guide to the Legal Profession
Contact details
For further information please contact:
Peter Scott
Partner and head of charities group
Expertise
· Over 25 years experience advising charities and other not for profit organisations
· Acts as professional trustee to large number of charities and private trusts; also chairs several large charities
· Charity formation and advice on ongoing issues
· Charity Commission investigation advice and representation
· Charities’ mergers advice on strategy and implementation
· Advises Charities in social welfare, education, conservation, animal welfare and religious sectors
t +44 (0)1892 506292
Simon Leney
Partner
Expertise
· Charity formations mergers and dissolutions
· Formation and conduct of Community Interest Companies
· Wide experience of governance, strategy and general activities
· Training board members
· Negotiations with Charity Commission
· Trustee of education charity and school governor
· Taxation and trusts specialist
· General counsel for charitable and not for profit bodies
t +44 (0)1892 506005
