Mark Johnson

Mark Johnson is a commercial solicitor and ICSA-qualified Company Secretary with over 21 years’ experience of developing successful new business models, social and community enterprises. He has served as legal counsel, company secretary as well as a non executive director to many enterprises, helping with business planning and strategy, as well as governance and compliance issues.

Sector specialisms:

• Public services
• Public Sector Spin-Outs and Mutuals
• Social Care
• Healthcare
• Education and Children’s Services
• Sports
• Leisure and Cultural
• Regeneration

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Services:

• Develop your Community Share Offer – working on your Business Plan and Offer Document
• Craft the right constitution and legal format to take forward your project – demystifying and explaining the legal structure and formalities
• Secure tax relief from HMRC
• Arrange listing of the Community Shares on a suitable crowdfunding platform to ease administration and processing of payments
• Apply for the Community Shares Standard Mark – an important hallmark to give investors confidence that the share offer has followed best practice
• Independent review and assessment of your community share offer to obtain the Standard Mark
• Maintain your share registers and ensure shareholder communications and meetings are legally compliant
• Ensure your organisation’s governance is following best practice and take care of compliance tasks.