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Briefing for Charities & Social Enterprises | 8 September

Our weekly roundup of news and updates from across the sector. To help you navigate this week’s content, the links below will take you straight to content by topic. Charity Commission Charity Commission CEO David Holdsworth has written a guest blog for New Philanthropy Capital about impact reporting for charities. The blog looks at how …
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Bates Wells Beyond the Brochure: Inside our Market Leading Immigration Department

Immigration law is complex and impacts people’s lives at many levels; their relationships, their work, their home and their finances. Join us to learn more about our how market leading Immigration practice untangles some of the most complex cases for families and businesses, and gain an insight into what life as a trainee looks like …
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Bates Wells Beyond the Brochure: Life as a Trainee at Bates Wells

Join us to hear from a handful of our current trainees to learn more about what life is really like at Bates Wells. This is your opportunity to find out more about the type of work our trainees take on, what on the job learning really looks life, and to understand how our firm culture …
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Bates Wells Beyond the Brochure: Inside our Charity & Social Enterprise Department

Join us to learn more about our Charity & Social Enterprise Department. You’ll hear from lawyers working across Education, Climate, and Charity Finance to learn more about our diverse make up of clients and matters. When: 9 December 2026, 12:30-1:30pm Where: Zoom
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Bates Wells Beyond the Brochure: What does Purpose & Impact really mean in practice?

Join us to find out what Purpose & Impact really means in practice at Bates Wells. We’ll talk you through some of our recent purpose driven work and how positive impact is so important to us. When: 27 October 2026, 12:30-1:30pm Where: Zoom
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Understanding and unlocking restricted legacies

Legacies to charities usually fall into one of the categories below: Legacies falling into the second category are ‘restricted legacies’. What does this mean for your charity? Can those restrictions be lifted? And how should legacies in category 3 be treated? What is a restricted legacy? A restricted legacy is subject to binding legal restrictions …
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Bates Wells Beyond the Brochure: Application Masterclass

Join our Emerging Talent Manger for a walk through our trainee recruitment process, sharing what we look for in applications, how to stand out, and tips for approaching each stage of the process. When: 7 October 2026, 12:30-1:30pm Where: Zoom
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Bates Wells Impact Report 2026

We have an ongoing responsibility to create lasting positive change through our work with clients and our operations. Our role as lawyers is to help shape the systems, governance models and legal frameworks that support a more sustainable nature-positive economy. Our 2026 Impact Report focuses on environmental leadership in action and the ways in which …
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The year in education: Looking back and looking ahead

As schools, colleges and academy trusts prepare for the start of the new academic year, we reflect on the last 12 months and consider what lies ahead for the education sector. The coming years are expected to bring one of the most significant periods of policy reform in recent memory. In November 2025, the Department …
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Bates Wells discusses cybersecurity tips for schools with Independent Schools Management Magazine

Rayhaan Vankalwala and Nneka Cummins have published an article in the Independent Schools Management Magazine, August 2026 edition. Their article “Cybersecurity tips for schools” sets out the key questions that schools should be asking themselves to ensure they are protecting the personal data they hold appropriately. With the fast pace of technology and the new …
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Breaking down cookies: a guide

One of the main practical changes introduced by the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (the “DUAA”) relates to cookies and similar technologies (which we refer to collectively in this blog as “cookies”). With this in mind, we wanted to take the opportunity to demystify the rules around cookies under UK data protection law, and …
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Event | Charity Legacy Conference | 6 October 2026

Maximising income is high on the agenda for many charities, whether to help navigate rocky financial waters or increase growth to reach your goals. Join us for an afternoon of legal updates to explore how charities are revitalising their legacy income streams in strategic ways. Our Charity Legacies team will be sharing legal insights and …
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