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Chris joined the RSPCA in August 2018 and came with fifteen years’ experience of working in the voluntary sector. Chris joined Relate in 2012 as Director of Policy, Communications and Digital Services before becoming CEO in July 2015. He was instrumental in moving Relate to a new blended organisational structure, developing their digital services, and growing their influencing and campaigning voice.

Chris joined Relate from Scope where he was the Director of Innovation and Development. He was previously a Senior Development Manager at Nesta where he led their work on Co-production, People Powered Health and Ageing. Prior to joining the voluntary sector he worked in Westminster and local government. His career interest to date has been on policy, innovation, and service improvement.

Pamela is a business and social sector consultant with over 25 years experience in senior and executive roles specialising in governance and leadership.

Pamela’s extensive governance experience spans national as well as cross-sector non-executive roles.  She has worked as an ACEVO governance consultant, and is Governance Lead and Associate for Do-Well.

Pamela is a RSA Fellow (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce), and has just been appointed as the Fellowship Councillor for the North of England. She is also the co-founder of the Liverpool branch of the Women’s Equality Party UK.

Edward moved to Aberdeen Standard Capital from Brewin Dolphin in July 2014. He has day to- day responsibility for managing portfolios for charities, private clients, trusts, and pension funds and has 12 years of investment experience. At Brewin Dolphin he was a member of the Leeds Charity team managing discretionary portfolios for a wide range of national and local based charities. Edward has a BA (Hons) degree in Business from Northumbria University, holds the CISI diploma, is a Chartered Wealth Manager and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.

Malcolm Lynch is a partner in our charity and social economy team at Wrigleys Solicitors LLP.

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. 

Sylvie is over 18 years qualified and is a partner at Wrigleys in our charity and social economy team. She advises on a wide range of charity law matters, including the establishment of charities, trustee duties and governance, restructuring, trading issues and setting up and running trading subsidiaries, fundraising and commercial participation, charity law considerations for religious organisations, issues concerning heritage charities (particularly stately homes), Gift Aid and general advice on tax-efficient giving (and anti-avoidance provisions), public benefit, issues facing schools, cross-border issues, disputes involving charities and mergers between charities.

Sylvie is recognised as a first tier charity lawyer (band 1) in the national legal directory Chambers & Partners and as a ‘leading individual’ in Legal 500. She is a member of the Charity Law Association, the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) and the Ecclesiastical Law Society, and is trustee and/or honorary company secretary of a number of charities and sector bodies.

Claris is a consultant working with Wrigleys’ clients nationwide.  Claris qualified as a Barrister in 1994 and has been advising charities for over 20 years. Previous experience includes working as a lawyer with the Charity Commission and as an in-house legal adviser for a registered charity, where she gained invaluable experience at the “coalface”.  Claris advises on a wide range of charity law issues including charity formations, incorporations, mergers and collaborations, trustees' powers and duties, public benefit, rationalising funds, handling and reporting serious incidents, governance reviews and dealing with the Charity Commission.

Claris has over eight years experience as a governor a charity trustee of a large charitable independent school and is currently a governor of an all-through academy school with 1300+ pupils. Claris has been on Bursary Campaign Committee for over 9 years which seeks to promote social mobility and she is also part of a task force looking into equality and diversity issues.

Claris regularly speaks at and chairs conferences about charity law and practice issues for the voluntary sector, lawyers and other professionals. She has written articles for amongst others Charity Finance, Third Sector and the Bursars' Review.

Fiona is a partner in our charities and social economy team at Wrigleys Solicitors LLP.

Fiona advises charities and social enterprises on all aspects of charity and company law and governance, commercial arrangements, trading and fundraising, mergers and collaborative working.

Fiona has previously been a trustee on several charity boards as well as being the in house lawyer for a national charity.

Duncan joined Wrigleys in 2016 from his previous post as Director and Head of Charities and Social Enterprises for a regional firm of solicitors. With over 20 years' experience in the sector, Duncan advises trust-based and corporate charities primarily on governance issues. He is a trustee of a number of charities, including St George's Crypt, Leeds. He is a trustee of the Real Junk Food Project and has in the past run his own 'surplus food cafe'.

Laura specialises in community-led housing and is developing her own cohousing scheme in South Cumbria. She also co-founded a community land trust and, until recently, sat on the board of the UK Cohousing Trust. She advises on legal structures, governance, charity law, contractual and commercial matters.

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

Nat has been at Wrigleys for 15 years, and specialises in charity law, including governance, Charity Commission consents, serious incident reporting, setting up charities and registering them with the Charity Commission, charity mergers and de-mergers, and trustee duties amongst other areas.  She works with all sorts of charities, and has a particular interest in faith-based charities and students’ unions.

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.

Sue is a partner within our charities and social economy team at Wrigleys

Sue advises charities and other not for profit, voluntary and community organisations and social enterprises on all aspects of employment law including strategic issues involving TUPE and restructuring.

Sue has experience of advising on severance packages and on senior executive service agreements. She also represents employers throughout the Employment Tribunal process.

She manages Wrigleys HR Response, our telephone and email employment law helpline for charities including academies and independent schools.

Nick is an associate in our charities and social economy team at Wrigleys

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 students unions on a wide range of charity and commercial law issues.

Nick has a particular interest in data protection law as it applies to charities and students unions. 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 the firm’s own data protection compliance.

Nick is a member of the Charity Law Association.