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Malcolm is a partner in our charities and social economy team.

Malcolm is a partner at Wrigleys and head of the Charity and Social Economy Team.  He is a charity commercial lawyer and was an executive committee member of the Charity Law Association until June 2013.  He qualified in 1983.

Malcolm advises a wide range of local, national and international charities on charity law and relations with the Charity Commission, charity trading, fundraising, legal structures, social investment, social enterprise, mergers and governance. He is known for his lateral thinking and innovative approach to clients' problems. 

He is recognised by the National Legal Directories, Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners, as an expert in Charity Law.  He is a trustee of Leeds Youth Opera. 

Clare is a partner in our charities and social economy team.

Clare has a background in trust law and advises on a wide range of charity law matters, including: the establishment of charities; trustees' duties and governance; serious incidents; charity mergers; trading; fundraising; and cause related marketing. She has particular expertise in establishing and advising corporate foundations and in advising charities on their interactions with the Charity Commission.

Clare is a member of the Charity Law Association and Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) and is also a Dementia Friend.

Dr Radojka Miljevic is the independent Chair of the Charity Governance Code Steering Group.

In her professional life as a Partner with Campbell Tickell, she leads on the practice’s governance work and has over 20 years of consultancy experience primarily with not-for-profit organisations. She regularly works in an inclusive way with Boards and senior teams from formal reviews and strategic away days to developing team dynamics. She has written many blogs and articles, as well as a volume on Board appraisals, co-authoring (for the social housing regulator in England) a book of problem cases and a book about what leads organisations to improve.

Radojka has served on boards in housing, charitable and academic environments. In 2019 she sat as a Commissioner on the Haringey Fairness Commission.

Danielle is the founding Director of Friends Provident Foundation. Friends Provident Foundation is an independent charity, endowed by Friends Provident plc after the de-mutualisation of Friends Provident Life Office. Under her leadership, the Foundation has an international reputation for innovative funding and investment practice and is at the forefront of rethinking the role of philanthropic resources in the UK. The mission of the Foundation is to create a fair and sustainable economy.

Danielle has had senior policy and research roles throughout the non-governmental sector such as the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the Commission for Racial Equality and the Law Society of England and Wales. She has held advisory roles for HM Treasury, the Cabinet Office and the Financial Services Authority.

She is currently a board member of the National Lottery Community Fund, the Innovation Unit, a Trustee of Britain Yearly Meeting (Quakers) and advisory roles related to the Church of England, and the University of York, the School of Business and Society.

Ranjana has over 40 years’ experience in the field of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. She has been a teacher for children with special needs; a Race Equality Officer for a local authority; an Equal Opportunities Officer for a university; a Non-Executive Director for a design company and has held the position of Director for her own company, rba Equality & Diversity since 1998.

Ranjana has been a trustee for many Boards and currently sits on the Board for The Mary Magdalene Holy Jesus Trust, providing homes (almshouses) for older persons who are in need, hardship or distress; The Association of International Accountants and as a Non Alcoholic Trustee for Alcoholics Anonymous UK. From January 2020 until January 2024, she was chair of the Board of Trustees of The Road to Recovery Trust, which is a charity that supports people on their journey of recovery from addictions.

In addition to the current Boards, Ranjana was Chair of Northumbria Police Strategic Independent Advisory Group; was Co-Chair of the North East of England Crown Prosecution Service Scrutiny Panel for Racist and Religious Hate Crime and was a Police and Crime Commissioner appointed Independent Panel Member for Police Misconduct. She was a government appointed Commissioner for the Women’s National Commission for 4 years and was a Lay Member of Employment Tribunals for 23 years. She is a founder member of The Angelou Centre and The National Black Police Association.

Currently, she is Chair of the North East of England Counter Terrorism Advisory Group and an Executive Member of the National Association of Independent Advisory Groups for police services.

In 2009, she was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award for her contribution to Equality and Diversity by CULTURES CIC; in 2012 she was shortlisted for an Asian Women of Achievement Award for her contribution to public service. In January 2014 she was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Honours for her work with the police in Tyne and Wear and Northumberland. In 2015, she was shortlisted for the Woman of the Year for the National Asian Achievers Awards.

She was named as a Social Change Maker in 2020 by the Northern Asian Power List. She has been added to the 2022 Northern Power Women List by Northern Power Women. In March 2022, she was named as The Volunteer of the Year by the National British Association of Women in Policing (BAWP).

In 2023, she was shortlisted for the Lifetime Achiever Award for the National Diversity Awards.

Jeremy Ince is the regional manager of Charity Bank

Jeremy's role is to work with clients, helping them to evaluate the risks & benefits associated with loan finance, proving guidance and support throughout the loan application process and on an ongoing basis thereafter.

Jeremy has worked at Charity Bank since 2011, during which time he has helped a wide variety of social sector clients to access more than £100m in social investment.

Jeremy is a keen sportsman and loves the great outdoors – walking, cycling and sailing. He is also Chair of a local scout campsite and activity centre.

Hayley is an associate in our charities and social economy team.

Hayley qualified into the team in September 2017, having trained at Wrigleys. Hayley has experience working with a range of organisations across the voluntary sector. In particular, she advises on legal structures for charities, social enterprises and not for profit organisations; incorporations, mergers and assets transfers; and intragroup relations between different organisations in the same structure. She also advises on general governance, including trustee and director duties, and regularly provides trustee training sessions.

Hayley is a member of the Charity Law Association and a trustee of a local dance charity.

Nick is an associate in our charities and social economy team.

Nick joined Wrigleys in 2016 as a trainee and qualified as a solicitor in September 2018. In his time with Wrigleys, Nick has advised charities and social enterprises on a wide range of charity and commercial law issues.

Nick has a particular interest in data protection law, as it applies to charities. Nick regularly advises on data protection issues and delivers training internally and externally on the subject. Nick is one of the firm’s data protection representatives responsible for Wrigleys’ own data protection compliance.

Nick is a member of the Charity Law Association. 

Joanna is an associate in our charities and social economy team.

Formerly a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments, Joanna started her career as a fund manager, working for a number of years for fund management firms in London and nationally before re-training as a solicitor.

Joanna advises charities, their trading subsidiaries, and social enterprises on a wide range of charity law and other legal matters, including providing governance support and trustee training, advising on registrations and constitutional amendments, and structural transactions such as incorporations, mergers, and asset transfers. She has a particular interest in the health and social care sector, and specialises in advising almshouse charities and other charitable organisations with permanent endowment and complex or special trusts.

Joanna is a member of the Charity Law Association and is recognised as a Recommended Lawyer by the Legal 500 directory. She is also a trustee of a Leeds based charity which assists young people who are experiencing financial hardship by providing grants to support education and training.

Laurel is a solicitor in our charities and social economy team.

Laurel joined Wrigleys in 2017 and qualified into Wrigleys’ charities and social economy team as a solicitor in June 2020.

Laurel has experience working with a range of charitable organisations and social enterprises, advising on governance, legal structures, incorporations, mergers, interactions with regulators, and winding up. Laurel also advises corporate foundations, schools and academies, and community organisations.

Alacoque is a partner in our charities and social economy team.

Alacoque specialises in working with third sector and education sector clients on all aspects of employment law. She advises on complex employee relations issues, employment status, policies and procedures, employment contracts, settlement agreements and the defence of tribunal claims, including holiday pay, discrimination, whistle-blowing and trade union related claims. Alacoque also advises on redundancy and restructure projects and on TUPE transfers, including the requirements of collective consultation.

She has a particular interest in equality law and has considerable experience of the realities of managing staff and resources within the education and public sectors.

Alacoque edits Wrigleys’ monthly Employment Law Bulletin and regularly speaks on employment law and HR topics.

Laura Moss is a partner in our charities and social economy team.

Laura advises a wide range of charities, establishing new entities, merging existing ones and advising on constitutional changes, trustee duties, vires issues, trustee disputes and more.

As well as core charity work, Laura has a particular interest in social business, working with organisations which have social values and purposes at the heart of their corporate structure.  This includes social enterprises, co-operatives, B Corps and employee-owned organisations.  Her interest in ESG extends to academia, having completed a Masters dissertation on B Corps, evaluating their effectiveness as a means for businesses to hardwire corporate responsibility into their governance and reporting structures.

Mike is an associate in our charities and social economy team

Mike advises charities, their trading subsidiaries, societies, public bodies, other not-for-profit organisations and social enterprises.

Mike’s areas of work include:

• Structural transactions such as mergers, reorganisations and joint ventures.
• Governance advice in relation to Articles of Association for limited companies and Rules for co-operative and community benefit societies.
• Operational and commercial matters including contracts for services, subcontracting arrangements and shareholder agreements.
• Raising social finance, including in relation to share and bond issues and general financing and security arrangements with both commercial and social lenders and grant making organisations.
• Employee Ownership transitions and advice.

Sophie is an associate in our charities and social economy team.

Sophie joined Wrigleys as a trainee solicitor in September 2015 and qualified into the Charities and Social Economy team in June 2017. She advises charities and other social enterprises on a wide range of matters, including formation, legal structures, constitutional amendments, trustee duties and governance.

Sophie has a keen interest in ESG and environmental issues, both professionally and personally, and is a member of her local climate action group.

Sue is a partner in our charities and social economy team

Sue has over 25 years' experience advising on governance and contractual matters. Prior to joining Wrigleys, she was with Nabarro and then DLA Piper, both national law firms.

As a member of our Charities and Social Economy team, Sue advises charities, their trading subsidiaries, public bodies, other not-for-profit organisations and social enterprises. Her areas of work cover structural transactions such as mergers, reorganisations and joint ventures, and operational matters including agreements for services, subcontracting and funding arrangements. Sue also advises in relation to constitutional documents, project structures and matters of governance. She acts for a number of ancient grant making foundations.

In addition, Sue supports our tax planning experts by advising private individuals, particularly entrepreneurial clients and those with family businesses, in relation to company matters such as articles of association, shareholders' agreements and share structures, as well as on restructurings such as share issues and buybacks. She also advises our private clients on commercial joint ventures, LLPs and partnerships.

Daniel is a solicitor in our charities and social economy team.

Daniel qualified into the Charities and Social Economy team in September 2020, having trained at Wrigleys.

Daniel has experience working with a range of charitable organisations and social enterprises, including community benefit societies and community interest companies, advising on formation, structures, governance, trustee duties and mergers. Daniel is a member of the firm’s community-led housing, students’ unions and societies teams.

Daniel is a member of the Charity Law Association.