Law firm
Contact details
Chris Hook
Partner, Charities team
Time Central, 32 Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4BF
T: 0191 211 7801
E: chris.hook@muckle-llp.com
W: www.muckle-llp.com
Regions covered: Tyne & Wear, Northumberland, County Durham, Cumbria, Teesside, North Yorkshire
Profile summary: Muckle LLP is a full-service law firm based in Newcastle upon Tyne and Penrith, guided by our values as a certified B-Corp.
Our specialist Charities team understands that almshouse charities are complex organisations – often with historic governing documents, property and investment portfolios, and assets held as permanent endowment or restricted funds – navigating regulations while supporting their older and often vulnerable residents.
We provide a range of legal services to almshouse charities including:
- Governance advice and trustees’ duties
- Conversions to become a CIO
- Mergers and collaborations
- Expending or borrowing from permanent endowment
- Amending governing documents
- Applying to the Charity Commission for cy-pres schemes and orders
- Liaison with the Charity Commission and reporting serious incidents
- Sale and purchase of property and investments
- Disputes and anti-social behaviour
- Construction projects
- Banking and grant funding arrangements
- Social housing regulation
Almshouse charities previously worked with
Tyne Mariners’ Benevolent Institution, Durham Aged Mineworkers’ Homes Association, Hospitaller Order of Saint John, Hospital of King James in Gateshead.
Legal Services
Main Contact
Nathalie Jacoby-Danesh
Partner
Mowbray House, Castle Meadow Road, Nottingham NG2 1BJ
T: 03300452833
E: nathalie.jacoby-danesh@brownejacobson.com
W: www.brownejacobson.com
Regions covered: Nationwide
About Browne Jacobson LLP
Almshouses are complex charities, often combining ancient governing documents with permanent endowments and restricted funds, real estate portfolios and other investments and operating in a regulated field with responsibilities towards often vulnerable residents.
The Browne Jacobson charities team offers a full range of legal services to its clients. Guided by our core values, we try to keep the complex simple and provide strategic as well as pragmatic advice, on time and on budget. We advise on small and large matters of charity law, compliance with Charity Commission guidance, serious incidents, inquiries, governance audits, policy reviews, trustee training, amendments to governing documents, incorporations, conflicts of interests, health and safety, commercial contracts for the provision of goods and services, sale and purchase of real estate, commercial and agricultural properties, defamation, data protection, banking arrangements, tax matters and claims.