Bates Wells

Charities and not-for-profit; sport.

Partner and Head of the Charity and Social Enterprise team. Work includes: advising charities, membership organisations, sports clubs and sports governing bodies. Work for charities and not for profit organisations includes: formation, registration of new charities, constitutional advice, including restructuring, mergers and spin-outs; as well as advice on funding, grant and fundraising agreements. Work for sports clubs and sports governing bodies includes: advising on charitable status and Inland Revenue CASC status – registration, restructuring, constitutional issues, contract work and advice on funding.

Trained Bates Wells, qualified 2001 Charity and Social Enterprise department, 2001-2008 Seconded to the Cabinet Office Strategy Unit working as the only lawyer on the team that wrote 'Private Action, Public Benefit', the review that led to the Charities Act 2006 and the introduction of community interest companies Partner, 2008-Present

Publications of note: Consultant editor for the charity section of the leading legal text book Halsbury's Laws of England, co-wrote 'Keeping it Legal: Legal Forms for Social Enterprise' with Social Enterprise Coalition and edition 1 of 'Charities - The New Law 2006: A Practical Guide to the Charities Act' (Jordans).

Charity Law Association, member and former executive committee member Sport and Recreation Alliance member

Bruton School for Girls University of St Andrews, MA English and Modern History, 1996 College of Law, London, 1999

Wild swimming, camping, walking.