Stephen Lloyd to advise Lord Hodgson on Charities Act review 1
Tags: Charities Act 2006 | Law
Stephen Lloyd
Stephen Lloyd is senior partner and head of the charity and social enterprise department at Bates Wells & Braithwaite. He has been a partner at BWB since 1984, and has particular expertise in the interface between charities and trading.
He is author and presenter of numerous articles and seminars, and an adviser to CAF's Venturesome Investment Fund. He is a former chairman of the Charity Law Association, and current chairman of CaSE, LifeHaus Plc and the Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action.
Lloyd was instrumental in creating the Community Interest Company legal structure.
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Stephen Lloyd has been appointed as the expert lawyer to advise Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts on the review of the Charities Act 2006.
The Charity Employees Benevolent Fund has established an advisory council to raise the profile of the fund.
The long-term effect of the Upper Tribunal’s judgment on public benefit and independent schools will be a “shrunken and cautious Charity Commission”, according to charity lawyer Stephen Lloyd.
Labour’s cunning plan to force public schools to prove they provide public benefit has failed, says Stephen Lloyd.
NCVO has set up a new group to lead an independent review of charity law, which will shadow the work of the government’s own review of the Charities Act 2006 due to start in November.
Bates Wells and Braithwaite is leading a campaign to urge the government to establish a bespoke regulator for social investment, as keeping it under the Financial Services Authority (FSA) will be prohibitively expensive for modestly-sized civil society organisations.
Trustees should take responsibility for difficult announcements at charities such as redundancies, according to a new report from New Philanthropy Capital.
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Government urged to establish bespoke regulator for social investment
Tags: Social investment | Regulation
Bates Wells and Braithwaite, Nesta and the Red Tape Task Force are calling on the government to create a new regulatory regime catering specifically for social investment in place of the Financial Services Authority.