Charlie Cattell has been advising and assisting social enterprises and voluntary organisations for over 20 years. His specialist area is organisational structures, encompassing both legal factors (such as company law, charity law, trust law, and investment mechanisms) and governance aspects (ownership, accountability and control issues). A freelance consultant for the past ten years, Charlie’s work mainly involves ensuring that organisations have the most appropriate and workable structure to achieve their social purposes. This typically involves analysis of the situation, advice on options, and implementation of the preferred structure – he operates his own company and charity registration services, and personally deals with conversions, amendments, drafting of governing documents and all associated tasks. Charlie is retained by a number of voluntary sector and social enterprise support organisations to provide advice and technical support for their own clients and members. His training courses are very popular as he takes potentially difficult subjects and renders them accessible and practical. Charlie has lectured and written extensively on social enterprise and community development, and has undertaken work for national and non-governmental organisations in Korea, Australia, Japan and Albania as well as in the UK and mainland Europe. His published works include two texts on legal structures and a guide to insolvency.