Charity Commission Announces Landmark Decision

Charity Commission Announces Landmark Decision: "Charity Commission Announces Landmark Decision

In the course of the review, the Commission also looked again at the extent to which existing charities may carry out public services.

A landmark decision announced by the Charity Commission means that charities can now deliver public services which public authorities have a statutory duty to provide.
As a result, both the Trafford Community Leisure Trust and the Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust have been registered as charities.
This decision changes our previous approach that charities could not usually use charitable funds to pay for public services - which a public authority had a duty to provide - but could only supplement them.

This was reconsidered when the two organisations asked us to review our original decision to reject their applications for charitable status. "