With core charities law expertise, including on governance and constitutional issues, and the ability to leverage full-service competence, Geldards LLP remains a popular choice among many leading Welsh charities to advise across a myriad of commercial, regulatory, transactional and disputes-related work. Team head Harriet Morgan brings 'a calm, friendly nature to proceedings whilst maintaining a professional demeanour', and is particularly accomplished at advising on property matters for clients in the sector, including those in the social housing space. Fluent Welsh speaking senior associate Bethan Walsh provides an 'exceptional client service' to local charities, often in the medium of Welsh, across a range of governance/contractual issues, ongoing operational matters, as well as in relation to mergers. Marie Philippe also continues to grow her practice, having successfully covered Walsh's recent maternity leave, and is appreciated for her 'pragmatic and very useful advice' and her ability to explain matters in a non-legalistic way. Giselle Davies also handles some fee-earning work in her role as a consultant.

Led from the firm’s London office by Peter Spencer but with considerable input from across various departments out of Cardiff, the ‘very accessible and responsive’ team at Hugh James provides ‘very flexible’ contentious and non-contentious advice to a range of arts and sports-based charities, in particular. The firm also continues to pick up a significant number of charity legacy mandates, which is serviced by the firm’s market-leading private wealth offering. Rebecca McCarthy left the firm in June 2024.

While lacking much core pure charities law expertise in Wales, practitioners in a number of practice areas at Blake Morgan LLP ‘s Cardiff office, including real estate, public sector and litigation, regularly interface with the firm’s strong national South East England-based charities team across a range of contentious and non-contentious issues. An exception to this is Trish D’Souza who does handle some charities work on her own (as well as alongside practitioners from Reading) in the context of her education practice, including advice on governance, commercial and regulatory matters for registered charity Swansea University. Reading-based Ben Brice heads up the firm’s national charities practice and regularly works on matters with a Welsh nexus. Rebecca McCarthy joined the group in June 2024 from Hugh James.