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Recent positive news about the UK economy has been incredibly welcome. Britain is back growing and working.

Charities planning property disposals or new trustee appointments should monitor closely changes to the Charities Act 2022.

On 20 March 2015 the Law Commission published a consultation paper on technical issues in charity law.

In November 2015, the Government announced the appointment of Lord Michael Grade as interim chair of the new Fundraising Regulator.

Traditionally, EU Member States have restricted charitable tax reliefs to domestic charities meaning that a legacy to a foreign charity may attract a tax liability.

Following the extensions of some of the provisions in the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020, updates have been made to the sections ‘annual general meetings and other meetings

As part of the series of '5-minute guides' aimed at charity trustees, the Charity Commission has published a new Safeguarding guide.

In his pre-election budget speech, George Osborne unveiled a number of items which would be on the agenda of a re-elected Conservative Government.

The amendment to the Companies Act permitting an intermediate parent company to take advantage, subject to certain conditions, of an exemption from preparing group accounts regardless of where its parent undertaking is incorporated, was discussed in the March 2006 issue of our Financial reporting newsletter. Previously the exemption was only available where the parent entity was established under the law of a European Economic Area (EEA) state.

This morning the Court of Appeal unanimously upheld the RSPCA's appeal that its benefactor, the late George Mason, intended his estate to pass free of inheritance tax.

Lifetime legacies, taking the form of the charitable remainder trust (‘CRT') and its mirror image, the charitable lead trust (‘CLT'), have long featured in the toolkit of philanthropic tax-planners in the USA.

We look here at whether schools and academy trusts must comply with DfE guidance on the phased wider opening of schools from 1 June 2020. On 11 May 2020, the Department for Education (DfE) published...

The latest consultation follows previous consultations on the new OfS complaints scheme and its proposed approach to regulating students' unions.

The House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee has published the Government's written response to their report on the Covid-19 crisis and charities.

The new Code was published at the end of October 2025.

An investigation into the Global Warming Policy Foundation highlighted concerns over its charity-trading subsidiary relationship and naming confusion. The charity resolved this by renaming its subsidiary, and no evidence of improper financial support was found. Governance leads should ensure clarity in subsidiary relationships to avoid reputational risks.

Paul Farthing, a former Marine, made the decision to stay behind as the Taliban took back control of Afghanistan so that he could supervise his charity's efforts to safeguard the ...

In the case of "Professor Leon Poller v The Charity Commission for England and Wales" decided on 3 June 2010, Professor Poller appealed against the Charity Commission's determination of the complaints he had made against the Manchester and District Home for Lost Dogs (the ‘Charity').