Arts, Culture & Heritage legal services from Muckle LLP

Arts, Culture & Heritage

Arts, culture and heritage are consumed in many different ways, and offer varied (and often understated) benefits to the economy, individuals and society. This creates a wide range of key challenges and opportunities across the sector.

It's vital to have a trusted legal advisor who understands your sector inside out; enter Muckle at stage right.

We advise theatres, museums, dance venues, concert halls, custodians of historic buildings/sites and other arts, cultural and heritage organisations on a variety of legal specialisms. Our clients also include learned societies and professional service firms operating within the sector. A number of these clients are Arts Council National Portfolio Organisations. We are a Partner Member of UK Theatre.

Our charities & social enterprise lawyers work with colleagues across the firm to offer organisations in the arts, culture and heritage sector joined-up support across a full spectrum of legal specialisms.

Our lawyers’ extensive experience, and strong personal interest, in your sector ensures we provide insightful and informed advice tailored to your organisation’s needs.

See our legal specialisms for cultural organisations

General charity and company law advice
Safeguarding
Advising on capital projects
General governance
Real estate
Funding and finances
Acquisition and disposal of art works and other cultural property
General intellectual property, digital and technology issues
Liaising with the Charity Commission and other regulators
Commercial contracts
Data protection and information law
Employment law
Campaigning and advocacy
Insolvency (and dissolution)

Added value to cultural organisations

Training - We provide training to our clients and contacts on all manner of issues, either as part of our series of free webinars or bespoke paid-for sessions.
Podcasts - Our Charity Matters podcast series explores the most talked about topics within the charity sector, with guests including Alnwick Garden Trust and Northern Stage.

Muckle LLP has been the main provider of legal advice for many years, and we have a great working relationship with them, which feels more like a partnership than a client / provider relationship. They gave us terrific help and assistance on some complex property and construction issues arising in our award-winning building redevelopment and restoration project . They are now helping us again with our latest redevelopment plans, in particular with advice on licensing, property and governance best practice, which has proved invaluable in regard to our charitable status. The advice that we get from them is always relevant, practical, commercial and prompt and I would unhesitatingly recommend them."

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