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Joanna Blackman

Email: joanna.blackman@wrigleys.co.uk

Telephone: 0113 204 1114

Office: Leeds

Department: Charities & Social Economy

Position: Partner

Areas of practice:

Joanna Blackman is a partner in the charities and social economy team at Wrigleys

Joanna qualified as a solicitor in 2013. 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.

Joanna has written the following articles:

 Charities_Act_2022_Corporate_Trustees_and_Trust_Corporation_Status     Adopting a social media policy in light of the Charity Commission’s new social media guidance
 
 Independent schools’ development: policies for navigating the modern fundraising landscape     Is Your School Thinking of Establishing a Charitable Foundation?
   
 Charities Act 2022: new provisions introduced     Charity Commission Updates Guidance on Virtual and Hybrid Meetings
 
 

Testimonials:

"Joanna Blackman has been our point of contact throughout the project. She has been highly professional in every way, hugely supportive of our trust and its challenges. She acknowledged and built her own understanding of the unique challenges we faced. Without her level of support and dedication we would not be in the improved position we are today." (Legal 500)

 
 

Professional memberships:

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.

 
 
 

21 Oct 2024

Law Commission Review of the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 Consultation Paper No.264 September 2024

Law Commission consults on modernisation of Co-operative and Community Benefit Society law. Deadline 10th December 2024.

17 Oct 2024

Parent Teacher Associations – should you seek charitable registration?

When should a PTA seek charitable registration and what does that mean?

10 Oct 2024

Education and Skills Funding Agency to move to the Department for Education

Education and Skills Funding Agency to close and its functions to be integrated into the Department for Education by 31 March 2025.