Company & Charity Secretarial

Firm legal foundations underpin your governance, legal compliance, accountability and your success.

Our company and charity secretarial services provide those foundations for your charity, social impact organisation, social enterprise or business.

Your organisation has legal administration and public registration obligations. It has to keep formal legal records, like registers. Notify events and changes to regulators, like Companies House or the Charity Commission. Provide annual updates and carry out annual reporting, as well as filing event related data and documents so the public can find out about the organisation, its activities and its people.

We support and help your organisation and its governing body to deal with all of this.

How we help

You can choose the service option that suits you best, such as:

  • Company secretarial service (commercial company)
  • Charity secretarial service for (charity)
  • Registered office address service (company) or public address service (charity)
  • Company secretarial service overseas company with UK establishment
  • We can also give other special assistance that will be particularly helpful to you.
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Bates Wells Impact Report 2022

It’s been another busy year at Bates Wells and we continue to live through interesting times. Martin Bunch, our Managing Partner, is increasingly convinced of the need for business to be radical, to step up and address the biggest challenges that we face. Our people work on this on a daily basis. This impact report …
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Does your company have a sole director? If so, you might need to modify your Articles of Association

If your company has a sole director and has adopted an unmodified version of the Model Articles of Association for private companies limited by shares, you may want to consider changing your articles of association or appoint another director as soon as possible. The recent High Court decision in the case of Hashmi v Lorimer-Wing …
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Employment law update recording – May 2022

Keeping up with employment and immigration law developments which directly impact on your organisation is essential but not easy. To help you with this, the May 2022 installment of our Bates Wells’ bi-monthly Employment Update webinar: covered the latest in immigration law which is likely to impact your organisation, including the latest changes to Right …
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Bates Wells rewrites fellow B Corp Planit IE’s articles of association and employment contracts to better reflect its values

Planit IE is a design practice that pioneers sustainability and puts the long-term health of the environment and communities it works with at the heart of everything it does. Earlier this year, we rewrote their articles of association and employment contracts to better reflect their B Corp values. Our first step was to gain a …
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Bates Wells wins Litigation Team of the Year and Pro Bono Initiative of the Year at The Lawyer Awards 2021

We are absolutely delighted to have won two awards at the hugely competitive Lawyer Awards 2021. Our first award was for Litigation Team of the Year and is testament to the work the team has done to secure various groundbreaking judgements over the last year. The Lawyer commented on one such groundbreaking judgement – the …
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