Ben Brice

Significant Experience

• Advising charity trustees and liaising with the Charity Commission regarding the transfer of charity assets to a not-for-profit organisation, which was not itself a registered charity, and which would result in the transferring charity's dissolution, in a manner which was in compliance with charity law.
• Establishing a charity to assume responsibility for management and operation of local authority’s sports and leisure facilities, and negotiating contractual arrangements whereby charity was able to provide services to the council, leasing the properties necessary to do so, and with ability to subcontract aspects of the work to ensure VAT efficient transfer of the undertaking.
• Advising a registered charity regarding the provision of loan funding in the form of a program related investment facility to its subsidiary for the purposes of financing the design and build of a social housing development.
• Advising a charity on the benefits and disadvantages of proposed options for collaboration and/or merger with larger umbrella charity. Advice provided in context of ensuring client's retention of identity and control over its funds and effecting changes to its Royal Charter constitution with the Privy Council.
• Experienced in establishing and registering charities of all natures (including companies limited by guarantee, CIOs, trusts and royal charter companies), incorporating unincorporated associations and negotiating constitutional amendments with the Charity Commission and other regulators as necessary.