Four charities are removed from Commission class inquiry

02 Oct 2013 News

The Charity Commission’s class inquiry is now reduced to just eight charities after four of those initially caught by it finally filed their outstanding annual returns, reports and accounts.

Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum

The Charity Commission’s class inquiry is now reduced to eight charities after four of those initially caught by it finally filed their outstanding annual returns, reports and accounts.

Three of the four that have now filed boast Bournemouth Borough Council as a corporate trustee.

Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum (pictured), Lower Central Gardens Bournemouth, and the Five Parks - Bournemouth IE Kings, Queens, Meyrick and Redhill Parks and Seafield Gardens, have all been removed from the inquiry after filing their accounts on Monday.

And the Grace Church Christian Centre Ltd was taken out of the scope of the inquiry last week after submitting its accounts on 26 September.

The slimming down of the inquiry means that six of the eight still under investigation are religious charities.

The regulator opened the class inquiry last month in a bid to spur large charities with a history of late filing, into getting their documents up-to-date.  It has focused initially on charities with incomes of more than £500,000 which have failed to file in at least two of the last five years, but has warned it will expand its net to include smaller charities at a later date.


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