Stephen Lloyd moots new legal structure for hybrid social businesses 4
Tags: Law | Regulation
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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Charity lawyer Stephen Lloyd, one of the architects of the Community Interest Company structure, is leading a drive to convince the government to create a new legal form that advances a social purpose but also allows financial returns to private sector investors.
The tax relief cap announced by the Chancellor in the Budget is another attempt by HMRC to stop people claiming tax relief on donations to suspect charities overseas, charity tax experts are claiming.
More than half of the public think there are too many charities and want the sector to be rationalised, research carried out for the Charities Act review has shown.
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Outcomes are 'easily manipulated' in payment-by-results contracts
Tags: Public service delivery
Social value is expensive and difficult to measure and results could be easily rigged by organisations applying to gain or retain contracts, according to speakers at the 3SC Commissioner’s Seminar at County Hall yesterday.
Labour’s cunning plan to force public schools to prove they provide public benefit has failed, says Stephen Lloyd.
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.
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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.
Stephen Lloyd has been appointed as the expert lawyer to advise Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts on the review of the Charities Act 2006.
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