Guidance on speaking out as a charity
21st March 2008, 12:59 pm
The much-discussed revised guidance on campaigning by charities has now been published by the Charity Commission.
Both the news release (at http://www.gnn.gov.uk/environment/fullDetail.asp?ReleaseID=358150&NewsAreaID=2) and Third Sector’s article (at http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/News/789694/ have some useful information on how this has changed and what it clarifies - that taking action can be part of achieving a charity’s objectives, but can’t be its only function.
The document itself, ‘Speaking Out - Guidance on Campaigning and Political Activity by Charities’ (CC9) is at http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/publications/cc9.asp.