Injury claim case serves as warning to charities

By Stephen Morris, Third Sector Online, 31 January 2008

The Charity Commission is warning trustees to make sure they buy adequate third party insurance after an investigation revealed that a chair who failed to insure his charity against accidents had to spend more than £500,000 of the charity's funds to settle a personal injury claim.

Nottinghamshire-based charity Al Jamia Al Islamia, which provided lodging and tuition for students of the Koran, failed to keep account of £650,000 borrowed from members of the Muslim community over seven years and let its building in Flintham, near Nottingham, fall into disrepair, the report concluded. The commission also found...

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