Anne-Marie Piper
Head of charities group, Farrer & Co from 2001
Anne-Marie Piper is head of the charities group at Farrer & Co law firm, and specialises in charity law. She acts for sponsors of new charities, directors, trustees and officers of existing charities and other not-for-profit bodies and individuals and companies wishing to make charitable gifts or do business with charities.
She joined Farrer & Co in 2001, and is founder, former secretary and former chair of the Charity Law Association.
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Atlantic Bridge-style investigations were unlawful, say charity lawyers 4
A number of leading charity lawyers believe that the regulatory compliance cases conducted by the Charity Commission in recent years were unlawful – including the investigation into the Atlantic Bridge charity set up by Liam Fox MP.
Anne-Marie Piper continues her overview of the governance and other issues relating to charities wishing or needing to trade.
Charities that fundraise door-to-door and abide by the Public Collections Regime in the new Charities Act, could still fall foul of No Cold Calling Zones, according to a top charity lawyer.
Anne-Marie Piper completes her overview of the governance and other issues arising for charities wishing or needing to trade.
In a series of three articles, Anne-Marie Piper provides an overview of the governance and other issues relating to charities wishing or needing to trade.
Fresh from completing the merger of Help the Aged and Age Concern, Anne-Marie Piper takes an overview of charity mergers in the ?rst of a two-part article. Recent research undertaken for the Charity Commission on the impact of the current economic downturn1 indicated that 3 per cent of charities were considering a merger (although the figure rose to 6 per cent for both large charities (income between £100,000 and £1m) and the very largest charities (income over £1m)).
"Charities badly need the social investment market to get off the ground and at the moment that’s incredibly difficult," said Anne-Marie Piper, charity partner at Farrer & Co, speaking at the Civil Society Question Time debate in Westminster yesterday.






