Druidry has become officially recognised as a religion after the Charity Commission finally agreed to grant charitable status to the Druid Network.

Four years after the Network first applied to be a charity, the Commission accepted that its work in promoting druidry as a religion does deliver a public benefit.

The Network applied for charitable status after being prompted by HMRC, because it has a membership of 350 people who all pay £10 to belong to the group.

The Charity Commission said that druidry offered coherent practices for the worship of a supreme being, and provided a beneficial moral framework.

Network chair Phil Ryder told the BBC that charitable status would make administration of the Network a lot easier, as a lot of support organisations do demand that the organisations they work with, are registered charities.