Meet our team / Edwina Turner
Edwina Turner
Legal director
Legal director in the governance, funding and corporate team
My role
As someone with extensive experience of working with national and international charities, I advise on restructures, mergers and internal governance. Often working alongside boards and chief executives, I advise and mentor them through difficult changes aiming to make them as simple and as positive as possible.
I have a particular responsibility for charities, including churches, with a Christian foundation, and also regularly work with health and social care charities and those working in the arts, such as theatres. I am also responsible for Anthony Collins Solicitors trainees, ensuring that the training they receive with the firm is of the highest possible standard, as well as being enjoyable and challenging.
My experience
I have extensive experience of advising and establishing all types of charities – unincorporated, trusts, charitable companies limited by guarantee, charitable incorporated organisations etc. On a regular basis I deal with asset transfers; establishing trading subsidiaries and social enterprise companies; group structures; advising on payment of trustees; contracts; grant agreements; and liaising with the charity commission concerning all aspects of charity regulation. This includes registration, serious incident reporting, altering charitable objects, and charity investigations. I enjoy training trustees on their duties and potential liabilities.
My passion is to help faith-based charities achieve their goals and vision. Doing so, I am also a member of the Ecclesiastical Law Society, and am married to the pastor of a black majority church in Handsworth, Birmingham.
‘Edwina Turner is excellent to work with – readily available, responsive, pragmatic and knows her stuff.’ Legal 500, 2023
‘Edwina Turner has been down to earth, knowledgeable and amenable. Edwina has time and time again, been very accessible to my queries and helped me to navigate the legals of many different situations. She has gone above and beyond to provide a great service to my organisation and I cannot commend her highly enough.’ – Legal 500, 2022
My specialisms
- Charity governance structures
- Mergers and take overs
- Asset transfers
- Contracts and trading
- Grant agreements
Blog
My latest articles
Charities monthly round-up July 2022
Charities monthly round-up July 2022 contains several nuggets about how charities can ensure they have good governance and leadership, as well as news stories about the fates of those who haven’t.
Charities monthly round-up September 2021
The monthly round-up from the Anthony Collins Solicitors charities team.
Charities monthly round-up 31
The monthly round-up from the Anthony Collins Solicitors charities team
Everything’s changing in charity law: Part two
Permanent endowment.
Kids Company: Encouragement for charity directors and trustees
The case was brought by the Official Receiver who sought disqualification orders under section 6 of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 (CDDA 1986) against the seven trustees of Kids Company and its CEO. It illustrates well the tension between the role of a fulltime paid CEO of a large charity and the role of its board as voluntary trustees/directors.
Charities fortnightly round-up 22
Charity Financials, the financial information program from Wilmington Charities, has published its latest Income Monitor report.
Charities weekly round-up 14
With lockdown restrictions further lifting on 4 July, charities have a lot to think about.
Charities weekly round-up – 7
As we make our first tentative steps out of strict lockdown, many of us have been thinking about what the future will look like for charities, both in the short and long term.
Charities weekly round-up – 2
There was some good news as the Chancellor unveiled a £750 million package for UK charities to support them through the next few months.
New guidance notes from the Charity Commission in the wake of COVID-19
The Charity Commission has issued two guidance notes reassuring charities of its flexible and pragmatic approach at this uncertain time.