Topic: Charity Commission For England And Wales

Charity asked to explain finances

THE Charity Commission has asked trustees of the troubled ethnic minorities body Awema to attend a meeting and explain how they are managing...

Private schools win legal fight over charity status

Private schools on Friday won a long-running legal battle with the Charity Commission over what schools must do to justify their charitable status.The Independent Schools Council (ISC), an umbrella body representing more than 1,000 schools, had challenged tighter rules affecting ...
Charity really does begin at home for Rabbi Jacob (Shmuley) Boteach.. . According to Guidestar, a website that specializes in reporting on U.S...

Universities 'must help poorest'

The head of the Charity Commission has stepped into the university tuition fees debate, saying colleges needed to ensure access for the poorest people.. "Where charities charge high fees they have to ensure that there is a way of people who can ...
Druidry is one of the oldest religions still being practiced in some form today. In the 21st century, as support for mainstream religion is falling away, Druidry is once again on the rise, as the religion's innate concern for environmental issues ...

Druids Get Official OK in Britain

LONDON (RNS) Druidry, the pagan worship that has been practiced on these shores for thousands of years, on Friday (Oct. 1) gained recognition by the British government as an official religion after a four-year legal battle. The Charity Commission's 21-page decision ...
Just a couple weeks after the pope's visit, the United Kingdom has decided to give legal recognition to a pagan religion: The ancient pagan tradition of Druidry has been formally accepted as a religion under charity law in Britain -- a decision ...
A Catholic adoption service was facing closure today after it lost its latest battle with the Charity Commission for the right to be able to discriminate against gay couples.. But the independent regulator for charities in England and Wales found against Catholic ...

Bid to block gays adopting fails

A Catholic adoption service was facing closure after it lost its latest battle with the Charity Commission for the right to be able to discriminate against gay couples.. But the independent regulator for charities in England and Wales found against Catholic Care ...

Royal Institution to cut Christmas talks

The Royal Institution is to shrink its renowned Christmas lecture series for the first time in nearly 200 years to cut costs. The series, which runs the week before Christmas, has been reduced from five days to three.