Charities and
Not-for-Profits
Enabling your mission with specialist audit and assurance, tax and advisory services.
In the face of growing social need and a complex operating environment, charities must continue to evolve their strategies, build resilience, and adopt innovative practices to deliver tangible impact. With more than 50 years of experience working with the sector, we combine our deep-rooted understanding of these challenges with technical expertise, to support our clients year-round with robust, practical, and tailored solutions.
Areas of focus
Our team delivers meaningful results across the following areas:
Housing associations face several challenges, from ensuring financial sustainability and securing new funding sources to managing policy changes and responding to the evolving needs of residents. We support housing associations to stay compliant and resilient.
The UK’s education sector is facing a convergence of financial, demographic, and policy-related challenges that make navigating the path to institutional sustainability and long-term viability difficult. We support academy trusts, further education colleges, higher education institutions and independent schools to succeed.
We help charities navigate regulatory requirements, maintain strong governance, and manage finances effectively. Our team work closely with management teams and trustees to provide practical guidance, ensuring your organisation remains compliant, accountable, and well-positioned to achieve its charitable objectives.
Our dedicated team supports a wide spectrum of membership organisations from professional bodies and Livery companies to learned societies and members’ clubs. By tailoring our approach to your strategic priorities, we deliver an efficient, value-added service that goes beyond compliance to support your long-term goals.
We help INGOs meet funder and regulatory requirements through high-quality, risk focused audits. Our team understands the governance, accounting and control challenges of global programme delivery, and works directly with local offices, or through our PrimeGlobal network. In partnership with Bond, we regularly host webinars and events to share insights and best practice on how to meet your evolving compliance needs.
Religion has long been embedded in the charity sector, forming the foundation of many of the UK’s oldest charities. Adapting to regulatory shifts and evolving societal needs presents its challenges, particularly for Religious Congregations, who must carefully balance the needs of both the charity and the congregation. We are dedicated to supporting religious orders, dioceses, faith-based schools, and similar organisations in contextualising their challenges, navigating complexities, and progressing with confidence.
We see the value in making income matter — whether that’s through ‘profit with a purpose’ in the private sector, arms-length public trading, or sustainable charity revenue. With experience across all areas, our specialists are equipped to offer practical guidance and a steady hand, helping you grow with confidence.
Our services
Audit for charities and not-for-profits
Enabling your mission with specialist audit and assurance services.
Tax for charities and not-for-profits
Keep more of what you raise by being tax compliant – so you can do more of the work that matters.
VAT advisory for charities and not-for-profits
Clear advice that saves you time and money.
Charities SORP 2026
The Charities SORP 2026 is here, and implementation will be mandatory for accounting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2026, affecting year ends from 31 December 2026 onwards.
See our SORP hub for guidance.
Why work with us?
Our dedicated charity and not-for-profit team genuinely understands and care about how you work. We’ve got the sector expertise to guide you.
Dedicated sector expertise
Our team of over 140 people have all chosen to specialise in audit and assurance, tax, and advisory for the charity and not-for-profit sector. Through our support of more than 600 clients, we are immersed in the sector’s challenges daily, and apply these learnings, insights, and experience to our work with you.
Big firm quality, boutique firm agility
Our expert team sits under one roof enabling excellent cross-team communication and efficient, comprehensive resolution of queries.
Tailored support
We are committed to providing our clients with practical and actionable feedback, access to our charity events and webinars, and industry insights to support your mission year-round.
We are committed to making an impact
We truly believe the work you do is important, and equally, we are proud of our contribution to the world beyond our office walls. Last year, almost half of our people volunteered, supporting over 30 different charities.
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