Royal Opera House provides 'perfect example' of public benefit

By David Ainsworth, Third Sector Online, 20 March 2008

A director of the Royal Opera House has said a decision to subsidise ordinary seats by raising prices for the best seats is "a perfect example" of how a fee-charging charity can meet new public benefit requirements.

A week after the publication of the Charity Commission’s Public Benefit and Fee Charging guidance, the opera house announced it will charge up to £210 for some seats – among the most expensive prices in the world – in order to provide others for as little as £30. Ruth Jarratt,...

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