Two years ago I signed a lease to open a charity shop, and several months later formed a charitable company of which I was one of several trustees. Last year I fell out with the other trustees and resigned. They say the charity owns the lease to the shop and won’t even let me in, but I didn’t sign it over so I wonder if this can be true?
If you didn’t sign the lease over to the charity it suggests you’re still responsible for the premises and for paying the rent. That would make your former associates at the charity squatters, and you could obtain an order to evict them. However it may save you a lot of trouble and money to assign the lease to the charity now. See the solicitor who handled the purchase of the lease for you in the first place.