OSCR reports on its first year

By Paul Jump, Third Sector Online, 3 September 2007

Nearly 50 per cent of small Scottish charities submit annual returns that fail to make their financial results for the year obvious, and one in 10 fails to include its name, delegates at will hear today at a conference to mark the first year of the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator.

Jane Ryder, chief executive of OSCR, will also say that the regulator’s survey of returns submitted by charities with annual incomes of less than £25,000 also revealed that 82 per cent did not clearly identify the nature of their funds, 80 per cent did not include principal contacts and 69...