Political rules 'do not harm small groups'

By Indira Das-Gupta, Third Sector, 21 November 2007

The Charity Commission's guidelines on campaigning are not hindering smaller community organisations, according to new research by Bassac.

The Advisory Group on Campaigning and the Voluntary Sector has claimed that the commission rule which states that charities can engage in political activities only if these remain "ancillary" and do not become the long-term dominant means of carrying out charitable purposes, unfairly hits smaller organisations the hardest. But Ben...