Services to Charities

Member of Charity Law
Association; Trustee of White Dove Educational Trust.  Simon’s experience includes formation and registration of charities, charity restructures as well as commercial property transactions.
Member of Charity Law Association; Trustee of the Chinese Overseas Christian Mission.  David has over 30 years experience working in the charity sector mainly in property related matters. Trustee of Beeston Free Church, Nottingham and The Malt Cross Trust, a charity outreach project which serves the people of Nottingham.  Ben’s experience includes charity formation and registration, employment issues and intellectual property matters.
 Simon Hale (Partner)
0115 922 1591
s.hale@ellis-fermor.co.uk
 David Wells (Consultant)
0115 922 1591
d.wells@ellis-fermor.co.uk
 Ben Bourne (Solicitor)
0115 922 1591
b.bourne@ellis-fermor.co.uk

 

Legal advice to the Charity and voluntary sector work is at the heart of Ellis-Fermor & Negus’ practice. We appreciate that being a trustee or manager of a charity can be a real challenge. Our aim is to help you achieve your objectives by providing practical, accessible and affordable advice at every stage.

All our charity team are charity trustees themselves and have a wealth of ‘hands on’ experience to draw on and we believe its our people who make the difference in our service. Our aim is to establish long-term relationships with our charity clients so we can understand your aims and objectives and work with you to help you meet these.

At Ellis-Fermor & Negus, you will have access to our expert charity lawyers and if necessary, to our commercial, employment, property and litigation teams. This means we can provide you with a thorough service covering not just charity law, but also other complex areas such as corporate governance, employment contracts and disputes, property and planning, SLA’s and contracts, intellectual property, mergers and other re-organisations.


We can help with:

1. Advice on charity law issues

Charity Formation and Registration
Trustee issues

2. Operating Issues


Contact Us

If you would like to receive any more information or ask us a question about these or any other matters fill in our Online Form and we will get back to you within 24 hours.  Alternatively please contact your local Ellis-Fermor & Negus office.


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The Ambulance Heritage Society are celebrating registration and official recognition as a charity with the Charity Commission. Simon Hale from Ellis-Fermor & Negus solicitors’ charity team advised the Ambulance Heritage Society on the setting up of the charitable company and the registration with the Charity Commission. Simon Hale commented “It was a pleasure to work with the Trustees of the Ambulance Heritage Society and to obtain the charity... May 15th 2012 | read more

David Negus celebrates 40 years at Ellis-Fermor & Negus



Long Eaton based and highly regarded solicitor David Negus is celebrating 40 years as a qualified solicitor, almost 38 of them withEast Midlandsfirm Ellis-Fermor & Negus.

David was admitted as a solicitor in April 1972 and joined what was then Ellis-Fermor & Shephard in September 1974. Since then he has seen considerable change in the legal landscape both nationally and locally, where his firm has grown from one of the smallest to among... May 12th 2012 | read more