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A few comments from participants on past courses:

"Clearly Charlie is a master of his subject, with a combination of knowledge and practical experience. Relaxed, competent delivery. A really useful course."

"An excellent course where Charlie made very complex issues clear."

"This was excellent. Facilitation great, very knowledgeable, also FUN!"

 

 

TRAINING

 

I can offer training in most subjects relating to legal structures and governance. Here are some examples of courses I have delivered successfully in recent years.

 

LEGAL STRUCTURES FOR SOCIAL ENTERPRISE

An in-depth course for advisers and development workers (2 days)

  • Constitutional issues: membership, use of profits, co-operatives, voluntary organisations, defining "social enterprise"
  • Legal status: associations, trusts, companies, co-operatives, community benefit societies, charitable incorporated organisations
  • Subsidiaries, partnerships, joint ventures, shares and equity
  • Regulatory regimes including Charities and Community Interest Companies
  • Designing a structure

Abbreviated versions of this course can be offered as 1-day or even half-day sessions.

A similar 2-day course can be run as “Legal Structures for Voluntary and Community Organisations” with a difference of emphasis.

 

CIC, CHARITY OR CLG?

Legal structures for voluntary and community organisations – understanding the options (1 day)

  • Incorporation
  • Company limited by guarantee
  • Charitable company – Charitable Incorporated Organisation
  • Community Interest Company

A similar 1-day course can be run especially aimed at Social Enterprises, with a difference of emphasis and including Co-operatives / Community Benefit Societies and share issues.

 

PARTNERSHIPS & COLLABORATIVE WORKING    (1 day)

  • Partnership contexts and models
  • Implications for charities: the trust law issue
  • Legal forms for new entity  or merger
  • Accidental organisations

 

COMPANY DIRECTORS AND SECRETARIES

Company administration for directors and secretaries in not-for-profit companies (1 day)

  • Roles, responsibilities and duties
  • Eligibility
  • Liabilities and indemnity
  • Company administration: meetings, records, resolutions, accounts, audit
  • Risk assessment
  • Delegation
  • Effects of the Companies Act 2006

 

All the above can be tailored to individual requirements. Other sessions can be designed to order on similar themes, for example:

•  The roles and responsibilities of charity trustees
•  Membership models in not-for-profit organisations
•  Charities, trading and subsidiary companies


Charges etc.

£550 per day for delivery, plus preparation costs (usually between £50 and £200 per session). Travel (from Yorkshire) and accommodation as required.
Trainer requirements: Data projector, laptop running MS PowerPoint, flip-chart, pens, coffee.

Copious hand-outs provided (supplied as PDFs for local copying).

 

For further information...

To discuss your requirements and my availability, contact Charlie Cattell

 

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