Gareth is an associate in the charity and social business team. Gareth advises charities and social businesses on a wide range of charity law, commercial and governance matters including:
- setting up charities
- amending charity constitutions, including charitable objects
- mergers and collaborations
- incorporations – trusts or unincorporated associations becoming charitable companies or charitable incorporated organisations (CIOs)
- charity trading and setting up trading subsidiaries
- commercial contracts
- governance matters and policies, including conflicts of interest
- trade mark registrations
Prior to joining Russell-Cooke in 2013, Gareth worked as the team leader in a global toxicology company’s contracts department.
- Establishing numerous charities, from small, local charities to global organisations. Entering into detailed correspondence with the Charity Commission to secure registration for more challenging registrations
- Advising several charities on incorporating, including Shakespeare Schools Foundation and the Polish Educational Society
- Advising on mergers (whether by a transfer of assets or the implementation of a group structure), including Lift People and Crisis, Youthnet UK and Get Connected Helpline, and Deaf Direct and the Oxford Deaf and Hard of Hearing Centre
- Part of the team advising 4Children on its administration and the transfer of its assets and employees to third parties. Only 3% of services faced closure as a result of the charity being put into administration
- Following negotiations with the Government Legal Department, successfully restoring a charitable company to the register of companies after it was struck off over five years ago
- Advising several sports clubs on incorporating and seeking charitable status
- Law, University of Oxford
- LPC, the College of Law, London
15/05/2017
Charity law update - May 2017 - What makes a social enterprise, employee right to work checks - follow the steps or pay the price, registered charitable housing associations and the statutory procedure for disposal of charity land
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