Why Independents Must Now Offer Public Benefit ; Commission's Strict Tests for Charities
Evening Post (Bristol, UK) › September 23, 2009
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INDEPENDENT schools now have to show that they are offering a public benefit if they want to keep their charitable status.
In publishing updated regulations the Charity Commission has said that charities will have to demonstrate that they are not "exclusive clubs that only a few can join", but are "outward-looking and inclusive".See the full content of this document
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Why Independents Must Now Offer Public Benefit ; Commission's Strict Tests for Charities
The Charities Act 2006 introduces a new public benefit test which all charities will have to pass to keep their status. For the first time they will have to justify this in their annual reports.
The Charity Commission has issued reports on the first batch of test cases since the law chan...See the full content of this document
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