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26 Articles

Rental Reform and ‘Outlawing’ No-Fault Evictions

The Renters (Reform) Bill: A welcome correction of the imbalance of power in the private rental market, or an ill-con...

22nd March 2024

7 minutes read

Will the new Charities Act impact your Charity land sale?

On 14th June 2023, the Charities Act 2022 came into force, making key changes to the procedures that you will have to...

27th July 2023

4 minutes read

What are my responsibilities as a charity trustee?

Charity trustees have overall responsibility for managing how a charity is run. With increasing regulation, it’...

10th November 2020

2 minutes read

Can one charity give a guarantee for another charity?

This is now referred to as “social investment” and was addressed by a law passed in 2016. The simple answer is that o...

13th March 2019

3 minutes read

Horsecastle Evangelical Church Registers as a CIO

Horsecastle Evangelical Church has now successfully registered as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (“CIO”) with...

2nd July 2018

2 minutes read

Following The Money

The responsibilities on charity trustees aren’t letting up. With intervention in or removal of charities by the Chari...

10th July 2017

3 minutes read

Introducing our Charity of the Year 2017: Ben’s Den

We are pleased to announce that our Charity of the Year for 2017 is Ben’s Den, the Ben Parker Trust Fund. Ben’s Den i...

20th June 2017

1 minute read

Voice of Hope sets up as a Registered Charity

A group of visionary women from Stoke-on-Trent have been successfully awarded charitable status by the Charity Commis...

13th February 2017

2 minutes read

New Belper Heritage Charity Established

A Derbyshire community group has recently been successful in being awarded charitable status by the Charity Commissio...

30th September 2016

2 minutes read

Being Trustworthy

Public trust in charities is at a low ebb. Speaking recently at the launch of the Charity Commission’s Public Trust a...

11th July 2016

4 minutes read

Charity of the Year – 2014

Our charity for the year is “The Arches Project” which is based on Lenton Lane in Nottingham. The Arches Project is ...

22nd January 2016

2 minutes read

Charity of the Year – 2015

Our Charity of the year is Hope Nottingham which began 5 years ago with a vision for Hope Café in Beeston as a one-st...

22nd January 2016

2 minutes read

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