Edwina Turner

As someone with extensive experience of working with national and international charities, She advise on restructures, mergers and internal governance. Often working alongside boards and chief executives, She advise and mentor them through difficult changes aiming to make them as simple and as positive as possible.

She has 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. She is 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.

She has 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 she 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. She enjoy training trustees on their duties and potential liabilities.

Her passion is to help faith-based charities achieve their goals and vision. Doing so, She is also a member of the Ecclesiastical Law Society, and am married to the pastor of a black majority church in Handsworth, Birmingham.