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Larry, Mike et al.... Policy Statement on Charities and Public Service Delivery http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/supportingcharities/polstat.asp Key legal principles Any charity planning to deliver public services must continue to comply with the following legal requirements (which, of course, apply to all charities): Charities must only undertake activities that are within their objects and powers. This is essential. Charities must not stray from their objects in pursuit of funding. Charities must be independent of government and other funders. An organisation must be a separate and independent legal entity to be eligible for charitable status. Trustees must act only in the interests of the charity and its beneficiaries. Trustees must make decisions in line with their duty of care and duty to act prudently. *** Are All the Charities on these Key Legal principles acting in these best interests of disabled people (beneficiaries) in protecting our basic human rights and civil liberities, under Nothing About Us Without Us and the UN Disability Convention? What tax credits are these Big Charities geeting from the Government when they are not acting in disabled peoples' best interests?? There must be something DAN, UK Disabled People Coucil (formerly BCODP), DRC, UN Disabilty Convention and all our groups and allies can do here to express our complaints to the Charities Commission on this matter. This is against the Prime Ministers Improving Life Chances report too. Yours Colin Revell _________________________________________________________________ Play your part in making history - Email Britain! http://www.emailbritain.co.uk/ ________________End of message______________________ This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). Enquiries about the list administratione should be sent to [log in to unmask] Archives and tools are located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can JOIN or LEAVE the list from this web page.