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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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).
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To discuss your requirements and my availability, contact Charlie Cattell
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