You can rely on Evelyn Partners for a wide range of advice and support tailored to help your charity reach its full potential. This can include:

• Advice and health checks on all aspects of governance
• Accounting, audit and regulatory compliance
• Tax advice, including on trading activities, property transactions, gift aid and VAT
• Mergers, transaction support and due diligence reviews
• Helping charities in financial difficulty through restructuring or formal insolvency procedures
• Active management of your charity’s investment portfolio
• Independent strategic planning and advice
• Forensic investigation service including fraud, asset tracing, and regulatory and disciplinary investigation

• We can act as a sounding board for trustees and management to identify potential issues based on experience of working with hundreds of charities of all types and sizes, as well as financial reviews of charities for funders and government bodies
• Our charity and education experts can help you manage risks, assess whether you meet the public benefit requirements and comply with regulations so you can run your organisation with confidence. We can also introduce you to other relevant experts, such as lawyers, who specialise in the sector
• Our charity tax and accountancy specialists can assist with the complexities of gift aid, VAT and financial reporting, which all pose unique challenges to the sector. Where charities are experiencing financial difficulty our specialist restructuring and insolvency team can advise on the options and next steps
• You’ll have access to invaluable direct experience and a genuine understanding of the challenges facing trustees from our people, some of whom act as trustees for charitable organisations in their spare time or have been appointed as interim managers of charities by the Charity Commission