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Understanding the "Failure to Prevent Fraud" Offence: Guide for UK Charities.

Employee ownership can be a prefered option available to businesses when considering succession planning. In this article we consider why.

The Charity Commission's updated guidance requires charities to ensure governing documents explicitly permit virtual or hybrid trustee meetings to validate decisions. Cripps advises charities on compliance, document amendments, and governance to secure meeting legitimacy.

The Equality Act 2010 ('the Act') consolidates anti-discrimination legislation into one document. Its purpose is to 'rationalise' and 'strengthen' existing equality legislation which it aims to do by creating 9 "protected characteristics":

Many testators wish to include a legacy to charity in their wills. Gifts to charity benefit from a full exemption from IHT provided they satisfy certain conditions, and may even lead to a reduction...

As the UK Government prepares for its Autumn Budget on 28 October 2026, this edition of In Trust examines key developments shaping the private client landscape, from cohabitation reform and charitable legacy planning to estate planning essentials and new transparency requirements for landowners. The newsletter explores how recent and proposed changes create both questions and opportunities for individuals to reassess their wealth planning, succession strategies, and philanthropic goals.

You may not have noticed but a new Charities Bill is currently wending its way through Parliament. In truth, however, the Bill (with its 358 sections and 11 schedules) is perhaps of more interest to charity lawyers rather than to charities or their trustees.

No trustee wants to find their charity at risk of insolvency. Unfortunately, it can and does happen, and trustees must be live to the possibilities of insolvency and take appropriate advice at the first sign...

The claimant, publicly known as Jean Hatchet, is a feminist campaigner with a particular focus on violence against women and girls.

The first of a new series of articles examining the key concepts in community-led housing.

A new guide is available to inform Parochial Church Councils who may be considering repurposing church land to deliver new affordable homes.

The Finance Bill 2014 contains new provisions making it clear that partial charities relief is available when a charity jointly purchases property with a non-charity.

Recent newspaper headlines have suggested that the Government’s proposed legislation to allow homosexual marriages will force religious groups to marry homosexual couples on religious premises.

Despite the backdrop of low growth and falling living standards, BWB has been pleasantly surprised by some of the less widely reported announcements in the 2013 Budget.

O2 has become the first network operator to put in place a new system which means charities should receive around 90% of the money donated by its customers through SMS.

Many charities and not-for-profit organisations will be affected by the introduction of VAT on a number of Royal Mail postal services from 2 April this year.

Last month the Fundraising Regulator published its latest report reviewing charities' compliance with the Charities (Protection and Social Investment) Act 2016