Helping you to deliver maximum social impact

Hempsons has an established charity and social enterprise legal practice and reputation with a dedicated national team of lawyers across the firm’s five offices in London, Manchester, Harrogate, Newcastle and Southampton. Our team has worked with those operating within this sector for many years and advises on all aspects from start-up options and legal structures, to expansion, reorganisation and collaborations. Our aim is always to assist our clients to maximise their impact and become more efficient.

Our broad expertise in advising charities, social enterprises and other not for profit organisations enables us to provide pragmatic and proactive legal advice to the sector as a whole as it faces challenging times and recognises the need to become more innovative and work more closely with others both from within and outside the sector.

Sharing the knowledge gained from our partnerships with specialist umbrella bodies and a wide range of clients, we work with clients at a strategic level to find ways to make their plans happen, and help them appraise opportunities from recent developments and Government policy.

As well as being specialist legal advisors to charities and social enterprises, Hempsons is also one of the largest specialist health and social care legal practices in the UK. Very few firms can provide our unique blend of corporate, charities and social enterprise expertise together with our extensive knowledge of the health and social care environment.

I have been grateful for the advice from a range of Hempsons colleagues over the years, ranging from charity law and governance through to date protection, wills and legacies, property law, and beyond. Detailed legal knowledge combined with down-to-earth and helpful delivery to solve the issue at hand is a common theme

Simon Lee, head of legal governance and risk management, Zoological Society of London