Guidance

Public benefit: the public benefit requirement (PB1)

Charity Commission guidance on the legal requirement that charities provide public benefit.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Published: 16 September 2013

Applies to England and Wales

• Publication for Northern Ireland
• Publication for Scotland

Documents

Public benefit: the public benefit requirement

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Public benefit: the public benefit requirement

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Budd cyhoeddus: y gofyniad budd cyhoeddus

PDF, 757 KB, 17 pages

Details

A charity’s purposes must be for the public benefit. The guidance explains this legal requirement. All charity trustees must have regard to this guidance.

This guidance is relevant to:

• people thinking of setting up or registering a charity
• a trustee of an existing charity wanting to change their charity’s purpose

Published 16 September 2013