We specialise in advising charities and our dedicated Charity Property Team deals with a wide range of matters in the complex area where charity law and property law overlap, offering sector-specific and value for money advice.
Our work includes freehold and leasehold acquisition and disposals for charities, leasehold portfolio management (including charity shop leases), secured lending and charitable trusts issues, such as permanent endowment amnd designated land.
Our charity property lawyers also draw on the resources of the wider firm (including planning, construction and tax specialists), to offer all the advice our charity clients might need.
We offer comprehensive legal advice to our charity retail clients on all areas of property advice for charity shops, including new leases and lease renewals, buying and selling property, planning permission, landlord and tenant issues, and temporary shop arrangements. We also provide charity trading advice, including structuring start-ups, setting up trading subsidiaries, intra-group transfers, and advising on Gift Aid for charity shops, including structuring requirements to satisfy HMRC conditions for Method B.
Our Experience
Birketts advises Priscilla Bacon Hospice on its project to build a new hospice facility in Norfolk
Birketts advised Priscilla Bacon Hospice on its exciting and important project to build a new state-of-the-art hospice facility in Norfolk, adjacent to the Norwich and Norfolk University Hospital, to meet a significant need for improved hospice care in the county. The team advising on the project included specialists in strategic land, construction, planning and charity law.
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