increased awareness of public benefit requirement
The Charity Commission has published new research to assess
charity awareness of the public benefit requirement.
The research is the first of its kind and is based on a survey
of 1,483 charity trustees in England and Wales. Key
findings include:
- 76% of charity trustees say that they know about the public
benefit requirement
- 98% of those respondents who know about the requirement are
confident that their charity can demonstrate its public
benefit
- the trustees of larger charities are significantly more likely
to know about the requirement
- 92% found the Charity Commission guidance to be useful with 66%
finding it easy to understand
- 22% of trustees have revisited their charities' aims as a
result of the requirement
- small charities and those with sport/recreation as their main
activity are more likely to know less or nothing about the
requirement.
Click on the link to view the
research report.
