Commission reveals public benefit test guinea pigs

By Ben Cook, Third Sector, 8 October 2008

The Charity Commission has announced a list of 12 voluntary sector organisations that will be the first to be subjected to tests that determine whether they operate for the public benefit.

The tests will focus on religious charities, fee-charging residential care homes and fee-charging schools. Among the charities chosen by the commission are Christian charity the Church Mission Society, the Manchester Grammar School Foundation and the Cornwall Old People's Housing Society. The charities were selected for testing because their activities were...

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