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Joanna Blackman is a solicitor at Wrigleys Solicitors LLP. Joanna works with national and international charities of all sizes, their trading subsidiaries and other social enterprises on a wide range of charity law and other legal matters, including providing governance support and trustee training, advising on constitutional amendments, incorporations, registrations, and mergers.

Joanna's recent experience includes:

• Assisting a charity in relation to charity law issues arising from the employment and remuneration of trustees including liaising with the Charity Commission on behalf of the charity in relation to unauthorised benefits to trustees.
• Advising on the merger of a large care home charity with complex trusts. This advice included negotiating with the Charity Commission to amend the trusts of the charity and to lift permanent endowment restrictions, in order to facilitate the transfer of assets to a recipient charity with similar purposes and activities.
• As a result of challenges created by the pandemic, providing legal advice to a number of charities on safeguarding and serious incident reporting matters. Examples of such advice include supporting a care home charity on merger options, safeguarding issues, and serious incident reporting in light of concerns over financial viability, and advising a large national charity on complex safeguarding challenges created by the unique structure of the organisation.