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Keep it legal: Fee-charging charities

By Claris D'cruz, Third Sector, 7 May 2008

From this financial year, trustees are obliged to include a section in their annual reports about how their charities' aims are carried out for the public benefit.

The spotlight has been on independent schools and private hospitals, but the requirement also applies to residential care homes, leisure centres, theatres, village halls, community centres, concert halls, arts centres, stately homes and other visitor attractions that are charities. According to the Charity Commission, trustees of fee-charging charities must "have...

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