Staying true to your faith while ensuring your organisation meets legal and regulatory requirements shouldn’t feel like a compromise. For faith communities, balance is essential. 

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You should never feel short-changed. Picture this: lawyers backed by deep-rooted experience in advising faith charities, with a genuine interest in your work and a commitment to keeping your values at the heart of every decision.

That’s how it should be – straightforward and aligned with your mission.

Your faith organisations team

You deserve an understanding and hardworking team that supports charities from all faiths across all areas of mission and works. Whether you’re a faith organisation, religious order, diocese, umbrella body or a faith-driven service provider, there’s a team ready to provide comprehensive legal support, ensuring the approach is consistent with your beliefs.

Here’s how our expertise can help:

  • Supporting with charity governance, amending governing documents, restructuring and changes of legal forms
  • Reviewing legacies and endowment funds
  • Advising on fundraising and charity appeals, property or employment matters and trustee disputes
  • Dealing with the Charity Commission, OSCR, the Fundraising Regulator and charities legislation
  • Reporting serious incidents
  • Managing safeguarding and dealing with allegations of historic abuse.
In need of a faith organisations lawyer? Look no further.
At Womble Bond Dickinson we have an exceptional team of talented lawyers and business professionals who can offer guidance and find the solutions right for your business. We have both broad and niche expertise across all our UK and US offices.
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The proof's in our experience

  • Over 15 cathedrals on the implementation of the Cathedrals Measure 2021
  • Over 300 faith schools on conversion to academy status
  • A large synagogal body on complex matters of governance and membership
  • A wide range of Church of England bodies on charity, ecclesiastical and property related matters including Diocesan Boards of Finance, Diocesan Boards of Education, Parochial Church Councils, and cathedrals
  • An organisation carrying out a first registration project for unregistered land owned by a Catholic diocese
  • Faith charities on dealing with historic abuse accusations and making serious incident reports to the Charity Commission
  • Religious bodies on a significant project to amalgamate and restructure a large number of subsidiary trusts and funds created over a 70-year period
  • A religious sporting charity, advising on application of the Equalities Act 2010.
Testimonials

"The team navigated us through the complicated and ‘new’ process of Cathedrals becoming registered charities with outstanding knowledge and determination" 

Legal 500, North, 2024

"The team provide an exceptional service at all times, it is a pleasure to engage the team and there is never any doubt that you will receive a first class service. Depending on the matter being dealt with you can guarantee the appropriate collaborative approach will be taken, pulling on areas of specialism with the team. As a client you feel very much like part of the team, working together and feeling supported every step of the way."

Legal 500, North, 2025

"The team are very responsive and accessible with a quick turnaround of work when required." 

Chambers and Partners, UK Wide Charities, 2023