Grant Funding & Fundraising
Funding is essential for many charities, but trustees face significant responsibilities when applying for and managing grants.
Our expert, pragmatic support helps you navigate legal and regulatory requirements, mitigate risks, and maximise funding opportunities - ensuring your charity can focus on making a difference.
Charitable fundraising is under increasing scrutiny from regulators and the media, making it essential to get it right.
A well-structured approach not only protects your charity’s reputation but also ensures continued access to vital grant funding. Careful administration and compliance with grant terms help secure long-term financial sustainability, allowing you to focus on delivering impact.
Our nationally recognised charities team provides expert, sector-specific support to organisations of all sizes. Whether you're a service-providing charity with large-scale fundraising operations, a local organisation engaging with donors, or a grant-making body distributing funds, we help you navigate the complexities of fundraising law with confidence.
We offer legal guidance across all aspects of fundraising, from ensuring compliance with regulatory regimes to advising on policies, procedures, and data protection when handling donor information. Our expertise also includes legacy protection, helping charities safeguard future income streams.
For grant-makers, including endowed charities, community foundations, and family trusts, we provide tailored advice to ensure philanthropic giving is structured effectively. Our support extends internationally, advising on cross-border donations and overseas fundraising, helping charities and donors make a lasting impact beyond borders.
With our pragmatic, expert guidance, your charity can fundraise and distribute grants with clarity and confidence.
Our expertise
Understanding the complex regulatory landscape is key to protecting your charity’s funding and reputation. We help you navigate the expectations of the Charity Commission, Fundraising Regulator, and ICO - ensuring compliance, minimising risk, and giving you the confidence to focus on your charitable mission.
When fundraising appeals don’t go as planned, careful planning can ensure funds are used effectively. Our forward-thinking approach helps you put the right structures in place so your charity remains in control, even in uncertain circumstances.
With experience advising both grant funders and recipient charities, we provide clear, pragmatic guidance that supports trustees in meeting their duties while ensuring funding arrangements work in practice.
Our team advises on the following areas:
The VWV team is knowledgeable and approachable. They are clear in their advice and understand the client's perspective, and are able to offer pragmatic solutions as well as the purely legal view.
Our work highlights
International major giving protocol
We supported a top 100 service-providing charity operating internationally by establishing a major giving protocol and developing a suite of template gift agreements for high-value donations.
Corporate partnership & complex gift advice
We advised a top 100 conservation charity on charity law and tax considerations relating to corporate partnerships, commercial participation arrangements, and a complex philanthropic gift involving property.
Supporting the Association of Charitable Foundations
We assisted the Association of Charitable Foundations in developing their Origins of Wealth toolkit, providing vital resources to support transparent and ethical grant-making.
