Charity & Philanthropy

The past year has hit many nonprofit organisations registered in England and Wales particularly hard because of both the Covid-19 pandemic and Brexit. Funding from European sources may have been reduced or withdrawn, and many charities are struggling with a reduction of their own income streams. However, the United Kingdom can still be a productive base from which to administer your charity. Nick Holland, partner and Laura Harper, senior associate, both at law firm McDermott Will & Emery take a look at how that might be done most efficiently.

The recent Charity Commission report on its inquiry into the Bersam Trust charity highlighted several failings in the running of the charity, not least in its management of loans made to it and conflicts of interest

Mishcon de Reya’s art law team has partnered with arts charity the Sixteen Trust

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International law firm Withers has hired charity law and philanthropy specialist Philip Reed as a partner in its London office

Corporate, funds and private client services firm Suntera Global has sponsored 80 footballs, which have been handed out to four organisations in Rwanda and Kenya

Guernsey insurers have committed to support a campaign to create an insurance museum in London

The 1,000 richest people on the planet recouped their COVID-19 losses within just nine months, but it could take more than a decade for the world’s poorest to recover from the economic impacts of the pandemic, a new Oxfam report has claimed

Jersey Finance, in conjunction with Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, is launching a new initiative aimed at protecting wildlife and ‘rewilding’ ecosystems around the world

Wealth manager Brown Shipley has appointed Rupert Cecil as head of charity and philanthropy