Spotlight on charity land
2 June 2017
We put our spotlight on Property and announce the arrival of a leading commercial property partner.
Whether your interests in property are operational, functional or investment-led, a thorough understanding of your mission and objects and of the regulatory framework within which you operate is always going to be key to providing you with effective, valuable and economic advice in your dealings with them.
With long-established experience of advising large operational and grant making charities, independent charitable trusts, leading charitable investment funds, ecclesiastical bodies and higher education institutions, we have extensive expertise over time and across the not for profit sector of marrying the property and charity interests of our clients in a collaborative and cohesive way.
We are therefore delighted to announce that Gavin Acheson has recently joined our practice, as a commercial property partner in our Cambridge office. Gavin joins us from Farrer & Co, where he gained over 25 years’ experience of advising major national and regional charities and charitable institutions with large and diverse property portfolios and endowments of all kinds.
Gavin joins one of the best regarded and largest dedicated commercial property teams within any firm outside London, numbering over 100 lawyers, including specialist teams with extensive experience acting for charity clients on the acquisition, funding, development, active management, letting and disposal of commercial property of all kinds.
Of current topical interest is our involvement in the charity retail environment. We will be exhibiting at the upcoming Charity Retail Association conference in June, where we will be delivering seminars on Gift Aid for charity shops.
The seminars will be given by Liz Brownsell, who was involved in the consultation process with HMRC when the new scheme was launched, has delivered a number of practical training sessions on the topic, and drafted the Charity Retail Association’s template documents for the new scheme. If you are attending the conference and would like to come and speak to us on the day, please get in touch with Louisa Saunders or Liz Brownsell.
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