Jonathan Burchfield
Partner and head of charity team, Stone King LLP
Jonathan’s experience covers both private client and charity matters but he has concentrated almost exclusively on charity matters since the early 1990s. He was a partner with Nabarro Nathanson before joining Stone King LLP in May 2006.
Jonathan’s work focuses on advising charities on all aspects of charity law and practice, and on their corporate governance. He is also head of Stone King's legacy team and as such advises charities on all aspects of legacy fundraising and administration. He regularly speaks and writes on charity law matters.
Jonathan stepped down in June 2007 after some 12 years' service on the executive committee of the Charity Law Association (having acted as its deputy chairman for some years). He is a trustee (and former chairman) of the Tubney Charitable Trust, a significant grant-making charity.
He has recently completed a term as trustee of Creativity Culture & Education, a charity established by the Arts Council in order to take over from it the running of the government’s flagship creative learning programme with schools, and is a governor of St Edward's School, Oxford.
Jonathan is a member of the firm's management team.
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The Charities Act 2006 has, overall, proved to be a good piece of legislation that is fit for purpose, the NCVO Charity Law Review Advisory Group has concluded.
The charity tribunal has quashed a Charity Commission order for the first time, reports Jonathan Burchfield.
Jonathan Burchfield dissects the Charity Commission's latest guidance. On 17 December 2008 the Charity Commission, following extensive consultation, issued its four specialist sub-sector public benefit guidance notes for charities working in the fields of poverty, religion and education, and for fee-charging charities. These build on the general guidance issued by the Commission in January 2008.
It is relatively common for the status to be questioned of people who are not appointed as trustees but who act as if they are trustees. In this sad story it was the reverse.
What trustees should do when devolution and democracy lead to unfit governance?
The latest public benefit test amendment to the Charities Bill, which is set to be considered in the Commons in October, has been met with a mixed reception.
This cautionary tale relates to a small arts organisation whose trustee body had become top heavy, with inherent potential for conflicts of interest. Jonathan Burchfield reports.
How can a charity balance the requirement to deal with its non-charitable trading company on an arm's length basis with the need to monitor and control its investment in that company?
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