[Free-sklyarov-uk] Corrupt CD's - Time for another protest/leafletingsession?

[Jason Clifford]

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Telsa Gwynne wrote:

> One thing that being a charity involves is an awful lot of accounts
> and records-keeping. You have to have someone very good at that, or
> pay someone to do it, since the Charity Commissioners can, as I 
> recall, just turn up unannounced and check no-one put the money 
> towards a winter holiday in the Bahamas or something.

The accounts requirement is no greater than with a limited company - 
indeed there is a recommended ltd company structure for charities in the 
form of a company limited by guarantee.

> I remember being part of at least one fund-raising organisation 
> which looked at charitable status and decided it simply wasn't 
> worth the effort.

I have registered charities in the past. For small requirements it is 
actually rather simple.

> I suspect the most relevant is the third one, which says
> (taken verbatim from it): "The law is clear that charities 
> must not have political objects."
> 
> Which is probably the end of that idea :)

In terms of a pure campaign to change the law yes. In terms of a campaign 
to ensure broad awareness of the dangers to education and to the rights of 
consumers not necessarily.

As per my perious email I do however accept that it's probably on the 
wrong side of borderline given the current aims.

Jason