Taylor Vinters - Solicitors

You may be looking to expand your revenue sources by corporate partnering, legacy fundraising, increasing your donor base and building on your volunteer support.

You may also want to manage your funds better, and ensure that you are getting good investment advice. Fundraising takes many forms, from street collections, fund-raising events, corporate support and sponsorships to legacy fund-raising and major donor giving.

We advise on all fundraising activities to help an organisation comply with the relevant regulations and meet best practice. This includes the management of volunteers who are carrying out fundraising activity on your behalf, and negotiation of your arrangements with business and other organisations that wish to support the work you do. Use of personal information held in databases for mailshots, fundraising and sharing with other organisations can expose an organisation to breaches of the Data Protection Act.

We provide clear, pragmatic and practical advice on what you can and cannot do in relation to the personal information held by your organisation. In addition, funding arrangements are usually shaped, at least in part, by the need to reduce exposure to tax and minimise VAT. This applies to grant funding, contractual arrangements (whether for service delivery or for commercial operations), and commercial financing arrangements with banks or other financial institutions. We can assist you with reviewing the tax and VAT implications of any of these arrangements. We also advise on the management of investment portfolios, property portfolios and the use of permanent endowments.