Amy Austin

Amy heads up our charity administration and clerking team, working with philanthropists, grant-makers and corporates who want to make a difference.

The charity administration and clerking team provides bespoke packages to our charity clients to assist them with their administrative and clerking needs. Their support packages include, for example, attending trustee meetings and minute taking, carrying out filings at the Charity Commission (and other regulators), and ensuring that our clients remain compliant with the requirements of charity law and process.

Fundamentally, the team is there to ease the administrative burden facing trustees, and to ensure that their clients can be as impactful as possible.

In addition, the team offers bespoke support packages to grant making charities, which are designed to assist trustees in managing and implementing their grant making processes. Amy’s team runs grant-making programmes for their clients, which sees them working with trustees to decide on the grant making process they would like to use, and then implementing the same through managing correspondence with applicants, carrying out due diligence checks on grant recipients, preparing the necessary documentation for grants, and liaising with the trustees for decisions.

Amy oversees a team of four and is based in our Ipswich office. She was previously a charity lawyer within Birketts’ charities team and has worked with a wide range of philanthropists and charities, across a variety of sectors including animal welfare, heritage and conservation, and education.

The power of charity – both within the local community or further afield – is of immense importance to Amy.

Experience & education

2022 Qualified as a Solicitor

2020 Training contract with Birketts

2018 – 2020 GDL and LPC at BPP University, graduated with distinction

2014 – 2018 Read Theology at Edinburgh University, graduated with distinction