Thea Longley > Bates Wells > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Thea Longley

020 7551 7831 [email protected]

Work Department

Charities and not-for-profit; sport.

Position

Partner and Head of the Charity and Social Enterprise team. Work includes: advising charities, membership organisations, sports clubs and sports governing bodies. Work for charities and not for profit organisations includes: formation, registration of new charities, constitutional advice, including restructuring, mergers and spin-outs; as well as advice on funding, grant and fundraising agreements. Work for sports clubs and sports governing bodies includes: advising on charitable status and Inland Revenue CASC status – registration, restructuring, constitutional issues, contract work and advice on funding.

Career

• Trained Bates Wells, qualified 2001
• Charity and Social Enterprise department, 2001-2008
• Seconded to the Cabinet Office Strategy Unit working as the only lawyer on the team that wrote ‘Private Action, Public Benefit’, the review that led to the Charities Act 2006 and the introduction of community interest companies
• Partner, 2008-Present

Publications of note: Consultant editor for the charity section of the leading legal text book Halsbury’s Laws of England, co-wrote ‘Keeping it Legal: Legal Forms for Social Enterprise’ with Social Enterprise Coalition and edition 1 of ‘Charities – The New Law 2006: A Practical Guide to the Charities Act’ (Jordans).

Memberships

• Charity Law Association, member and former executive committee member
• Sport and Recreation Alliance member

Education

• Bruton School for Girls
• University of St Andrews, MA English and Modern History, 1996
• College of Law, London, 1999

Leisure

Wild swimming, camping, walking.