Solicitors
Contact Details
Philip Grylls
Chair
16 Mill Street, Maidstone, Kent ME15 6XT
T: 01622 689735
E: p.grylls@gullands.com
W: www.gullands.com
Region covered: UK wide
About Gullands Solicitors
The Gullands team works with a number of charities of different sizes and structures to deliver excellent results.
We can advise and assist on a full range of business law issues and charity specific matters such as:
- The formation, establishment and dissolution of unincorporated charities, companies limited by guarantee and trusts.
- Incorporating as a CIO
- Charity Mergers
- Day to day governance and compliance issues including advising trustees on their statutory and fiduciary duties.
- Schemes and orders including amending schemes e.g. widening Objects and spending Restricted Funds.
- Public benefit requirements.
- Internal disputes or disagreements between trustees.
- Court Work including dealing with possession cases involving difficult residents.
- Building new or modernising existing almshouses
- LSelling ot buying land
Blair Gulland won an Outstanding Achievement Award at the Kent Law Society Awards 2017 and was a finalist for Solicitor of the Year, Private Practice, part of the Law Society’s national Excellence Awards 2017. Blair is also a finalist in the IOD South East Awards 2018, all for his work with charities. Blair is now a Consultant with Gullands and is also a trustee of two almshouse charities in Kent. Gullands were involved in the case of Watts v. Stewart and Other (2016) which was an important Court of Appeal case confirming the status of an almshouse resident as a licensee or beneficiary and not as a protected tenant and not subject to the Human Rights Act 1998.