Company denied charity status sets up trust

By Helen Warrell, Third Sector Online, 8 May 2008

A healthcare company that was refused charitable status on the grounds that it did not provide public benefit has set up a separate charitable trust.

The Charity Commission ruled that Odstock Private Care, which was set up to look after Salisbury District Hospital's private patients, could not be registered as a charity because people on low incomes would not be able to afford its services ( Third Sector Online , 14 December 2007). However, the...

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