Author: Great Britain: National Audit Office
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780102987164
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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The Charity Commission is not regulating charities effectively and there is a gap between what the public expects of the Commission and what it actually does. The NAO has concluded that the Commission does not do enough to identify and tackle abuse of charitable status. Between 2007-08 and 2013-14, the Commission's annual budget fell 40 per cent in real terms to £22.7 million but the number of main registered charities has remained fairly constant at around 160,000. In response to budget cuts, the Commission has reviewed how it works and successfully reduced demand for its services, but it has not identified what budget it would need to regulate effectively. The Commission makes little use of its enforcement powers, for example suspending only two trustees and removing none in 2012-13. And it can be slow to act when investigating regulatory concerns. The NAO found cases where periods of several months passed during which the Commission took no action. Furthermore, the Charity Commission does not take tough enough action in some of the most serious regulatory cases. It is also reactive rather than proactive, making insufficient use of the information it holds to identify risk. The Charity Commission needs to think radically about alternative ways of meeting its objectives with constrained resources. It also needs to make greater use of its statutory powers in line with its objective of maintaining confidence in the sector; and develop an approach to identify and deal with those few trustees who deliberately abuse charitable status. This report publishes alongside another NAO report, the Cup Trust.
Author: Great Britain. Charity Commission
Publisher:
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Author: Richard S. Tompson
Publisher: London : Routledge & Kegan Paul ; Toronto : University of Toronto Press
ISBN:
Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Author: Great Britain. Charity Commission
Publisher:
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Great Britain. Charity Commission
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781849220156
Category : Accounting
Languages : en
Pages : 25
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Author: Los Angeles (Calif.). Municipal Charities Commission
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Public Administration Select Committee
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215058782
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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This report into the implementation of the Charities Act 2006 finds the Charity Commission being asked to do too much, with too little. The charitable sector is at the heart of UK society, involving millions of people and £9.3 billion received in donations in 2011/2012. Around 25 new applications for charitable status are received by the Charity Commission every working day. Among the reports findings are: one of the keys tests set by the Charities Act 2006 for determining charitable status-the public benefit test-is critically flawed; the Government should revise the statutory objectives for the Charity Commission, to allow the Commission to focus its limited resources on regulating the sector; the proposal to increase the financial threshold for compulsory registration of a charity with the Charity Commission should be rejected; charities should publish their spending on campaigning and political activity. PASC criticises the way the Charity Commission has interpreted public benefit under the Act. The Committee also considered the impact of face-to-face fundraising, or "chugging"-on the street or on the doorstep-and warns that self-regulation has failed so far to generate the level of public confidence which is essential to maintain the reputation of the charitable sector. The evidence was clear that the regulation of fundraising remains a concern for many members of the public. Two in three people have reported feeling uncomfortable as a result of the fundraising methods used by some charities.
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215049490
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Author: Richard Edmund Mitcheson
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Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Charity Commission
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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