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Rosamund McCarthy Etherington

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Work Department

Charity

Position

For more than 25 years, Rosamund has utilised the law to create, merge or restructure charities and not-for-profits, set up efficient funding arrangements and work alongside as well as challenge the decisions of regulators. As well as advising on long-term and technical charity law issues, she also advises charities in the eye of the storm, helping them to navigate through a regulatory, governance and media maze. Rosamund has a track record in defending the rights of charities and campaign bodies.

She also advises political bodies and campaigners on non-party campaigning electoral law and is the co-founder of the Electoral Law Forum. Rosamund is a trusted advisor to the Chief Executives, Chairs, and Boards of charities.  She works across many sectors, including children and young people, international development, education, the arts, faith, animal welfare and health. Rosamund’s clients include start-ups, household name charities, international foundations, membership bodies, royal charter bodies and corporate foundations.

Career

Rosamund joined Stone King in 2022. She was previously a Charity Partner at Bates Wells where she trained and worked for thirty years, playing a key role in growing and building the Charity and Social Enterprise Department.

Rosamund has had experience of advising on most issues affecting charities including:

• Innovative charity applications, including advising on wide-ranging public benefit issues.
• Optimal structuring including donor advised funds, community benefit societies, CICs, fiscal sponsorship, conduits.
• Governance and membership advice for a wide range of charitable, professional and campaigning bodies including advising on comprehensive governance changes to household name organisations, as well as entities established by Royal Charter and Acts of Parliament.
  • Charities under investigation – everything from operational cases to statutory inquiries, often where there are multi-disciplinary issues. For example, Rosamund advised a household name international development charity in relation to one of the most complex and high-profile statutory inquiries undertaken by the Charity Commission.
• Grant making including to non-charities and overseas, as well as participatory grant making, collaborations and partnerships, grant agreements, financing, Charity Commission and HMRC requirements.
• Campaigning, political activity and electoral related activity, including advice to charities and non-party campaigners.
• Corporate Foundations on philanthropy, donor advised funds, corporate social responsibility, including extensive advice over many years to the Foundations of FTSE100 global brands.
• Arts charities including high profile literary prizes on governance, sponsorship and charity registration.
• Requirements for UK charities setting up in the US and vice versa including governance, affiliation agreements, reverse VAT, trademarks, circular funding.
• Advice on fundraising, sponsorship as well as compliance with the requirements of the Fundraising Regulator.
• Mergers of charities, partnerships, group structures and collaborations.

Education

Rosamund has a degree in political science from the University of Bristol and studied for her legal practice qualifications in London.