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Concerns our decision recognising the promotion of community participation in healthy recreation by providing facilities for playing particular sports as charitable.
This document contains the following information: Government's response to the Transport, Local Government and Regions Committee report: 'The new towns: their problems and future'.
First published during the 2001 to 2005 Labour government
The Commission's views on the need for a museum or art gallery to satisfy a criterion of merit in order to be recognised as charitable.
The background to the Review of the Register of Charities and explains the characteristics determining charitable status.
Sets out the legal principles that govern charitable status and scope the Commission has for recognising new charitable purposes.
Reports that set out and explain Charity Commission policy in key areas of charity law.
Summarises our views on organisations set up for the charitable purposes of preservation and/or conservation.
Provides guidance on the promotion of community capacity building as a charitable purpose.
Summarises the Charity Commission's views on the scope of s.1 of the Recreational Charities Act 1958.
Determines the charitable status of organisations working in the field of promotion of urban and rural regeneration.
Determines the charitable status of organisations working in the field of relief of unemployment.
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