Commission forces broadcaster to hand over charity money

By Paul Jump, Third Sector Online, 14 January 2008

The Charity Commission had to intervene to make sure that a Birmingham radio station handed over to charity £123,000 raised from listeners, according to the regulator's latest inquiry report.

Asian music station Radio XL was the subject of an inquiry by the commission in 2002, after it failed to release almost £30,000 that it had raised on behalf of Wolverhampton welfare charity the Divine Onkar Mission, which raises money for the relief of victims of an Indian cyclone. Arun...