please be careful

Submitted by roger wilkinson (El Salvador), Apr 28, 2006 at 14:13

Aren´t you missing the point about the Charity Commission? Their brief appears from the quote you make to be safeguard the ´charity´ concerned, (´risk of ..abuse TO the charity´)not to investigate whether the charity is really charitable. There is, I believe, a set of laws which determine whether a particular group qualifies as a charity. Churches, for example, in England, are sort of automatically entitled to claim charitable status; in its wisdom the legal system doesn´t choose to distinguish between particular ´religions´.There must be a system of investigation to prevent abuses, but that doesn´t seem to be the role of the people your correspondent addressed.

Yours, RWilkinson

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