Ashtons Legal Charitable Trust launched

Posted 21/06/2015

Ashtons Legal is today very pleased to launch officially the Ashtons Legal Charitable Trust.

The Trust, which is regulated by the Charity Commission, will enable the firm to support a wider range of local worthy causes, many of which will be nominated and chosen by our staff members.  Previously, Ashtons Legal supported three charities per year.

In 2014/15 the firm raised £10,000 and to date in this financial year are on target to raise £15,000 which will be split between the allocation of trusts and grants which local causes are asked to apply for, and local projects nominated and voted for by our staff.

Monies for the charitable trust are raised through a variety of events such as our treasure hunts, golf day and case management conference, as well as dress down days and cake sales.  Collection tins are also located in each of the firm’s seven offices.  Lawyers also undertake pro bono and reduced fee work and the firm hosts Wills Week every February when a percentage of the fee for each Will written or updated is donated to charity.

Chairman of Ashtons Legal’s CSR Committee, Nigel Maguire, said: “Our commitment to the community doesn’t stop when we leave the office at the end of each day. We believe it is important to contribute to life beyond work. We live here, we play here and it is where we’ve chosen to raise our families”.

Nigel adds: “The Ashtons Legal Charitable Trust has therefore been set up with the aim of giving something back to an area that has served us so well for so long. By way of grants and donations, the Trust will support charitable causes and community groups in Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex”.

Further information about the Charitable Trust can be found at www.ashtonkcjcharity.org and you can follow on Twitter @AKCJCharity. The website has been set up free of charge by Netmatters-Digital.co.uk so thank you to them.