Pippa advises charities, social enterprises and other not-for-profit organisations on all aspects of charity law. Pippa combines a strong general practice advising on governance, fundraising and trading, mergers and grant making (including overseas), with a particular expertise in philanthropy, where she advises both individuals and businesses on their giving. She has helped establish a number of family and corporate foundations.

• Supporting a family foundation on its engagement with a Charity Commission regulatory case, including  providing a robust response to the Commission, resulting in an official warning being overturned
• Advising a number of FTSE 100 listed companies on the establishment of corporate foundations, including managing the ongoing relationship between the corporate founder and the charitable foundation, and the endowment of multimillion pound donations to the foundation
• Advising on a merger between two household name cancer charities, and registering a new charity with the Charity Commission to receive the assets of both charities
• Advising on the incorporation of a large international aid charity, which included advising on the transfer of assets around the world from the original trust to the new corporate charity
• Providing ongoing fundraising advice to household name charities, in particular, advising on complicated commercial participator arrangements
• Working with a team of accountants in successfully applying to HMRC for recognition of a German charity as a charity for tax purposes in the UK, qualifying for tax exemptions and being only one of a handful to do so
• Providing advice on overseas grant making and compliance (including HMRC and Charity Commission) for overseas charities and donor advised funds

• Trustee of FoodCycle
• Public Affairs Committee Member, Philanthropy Impact
• Member of the Charity Law Association, working group member on corporate transparency and register reform