An article series for charities and social enterprises
explaining important contractual concepts and terms, providing
recent updates to contract law.
We are often asked by charities to draft or review the written
terms of commercial and other arrangements they are entering into
with organisations or individuals they engage with. Those
arrangements can be wide ranging, from contracts for the delivery
of charitable services, to collaboration or joint working
arrangements, and from grant funding agreements to contracts for
the receipt of critical infrastructure, such as IT or other tech
solutions.
When advising a client on such terms, we pride ourselves on
getting to the heart of the material risks and issues faced by, and
opportunities presented to, them, from such arrangements. This
helps them to maximise the value they receive from their available
legal budget. Inevitably, those risks and opportunities centre
around:
