Public Accounts Committee: Cup Trust should not have been registered as a charity
Tags: Gift aid | Regulation
William Shawcross
Chair, Charity Commission from October
William Shawcross was named as the Cabinet Office’s preferred candidate to become the next Charity Commission chairman in August 2012. The Public Affairs Select Committee confirmed his appointment on 7 September and he will take up the role in October.
He is chairman of refugee charity Response and former chair of freedom of expression charity group Article 19 as well as having sat on the board of the International Crisis Group. He was also an adviser to the High Commissioner for Refugees between 1995 and 2000, and a member of council of the Disasters Emergency Committee from 1997 - 2000.
His journalism career spans five decades and he remains a contibutor in the national and international media. He has written for the Sunday Times, the Sunday Telegraph, the Washington Post, the Sydney Morning Herald and Newsweek among other well-known publications throughout the years.
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The Charity Commission missed “red flags” when the Cup Trust applied for charity status and should never have registered it as a charity, the Public Accounts Committee has concluded.
The Charity Commission has suggested to the Treasury that it takes a slice of gift aid or places a direct levy on charities, as it warns it cannot sustain a further 10 per cent funding cut expected in the government’s upcoming spending review.
A Welsh representative has been appointed to join the six new Charity Commission board members announced earlier this month.
Two charity sector leaders have taken to Twitter to complain that the new Charity Commission board only includes one person from the sector, with Debra Allcock Tyler calling for responsibility of appointing the board to be removed from a government minister.
Ian Allsop muses on the unattractive political career prospects of a charities minister.
NCVO chief executive Sir Stuart Etherington will use a speech today to criticise the leadership of the Charity Commission and warn that it has lost the respect of the sector over the Cup Trust scandal.
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Cabinet Office appoints new Charity Commission board 2
Tags: Regulation | Leadership and strategy
The Cabinet Office has announced the six new board members of the Charity Commission that will replace the current governance team at the regulator serving under William Shawcross as chair.
The Charity Commission’s intelligence function carried out more than 163,000 checks on new trustees in the 2012/13 financial year, over 35,000 of them in relation to new charities.
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