The Regulator for Charities in England and Wales

Decisions of the Commission-Index of Key Issues

Once you have found the key issue you are interested in, click on the relevant letter of the alphabet to go to any sub issues and the cases which consider them. For example to look at the issue of education click on the letter E below.

Alphabetical Index of key issues:

A Activities
  Amenities
  Analogies (the use of analogies in accepting new novel charitable purposes)
  Animals
  Authority for leases
   
B  Background Information
   
C Campaigning
  Charitable status
  Children
  Citizenship (good)
  Clairvoyants and mediums
  Commerce and industry
  Compensation
  Complementary and alternative therapies
  Company limited by shares
  Conflict of Interests
  Conflict Resolution
  Construction (considering the construction of objects in governing documents in relation to charitable status)
  Conservation (including conservation of the environment)
  Contracts
  Countryside
   
D  
 
E Education
  Efficiency and effectiveness of charities and the effective use of charitable resources (promoting the)
   
F Facilities
Farmers' markets
 
G Governmental Authority
 
H Hardship funds
  Health (promotion of)
  Health Care
  Hobbies
  Human Rights
   
I Information
  Independence
  Insurance availability
  Internet
  Investments
 
J Jurisdiction
   
K  
 
L Leases
  Leisure Services
  Loans
  Local Authority
   
M Moral or spiritual welfare or improvement of the community
   
N  
 
O Objects
Options (whether section 36 is applicable)
 
P Payroll giving
  Poverty (relief of)
  Preservation of public order
  Private benefit
  Private commercial interests
  Private hospitals
  Professional bodies as charities
  Promoting a political purpose/a particular point of view
  Protection of life and property and public safety
  Public benefit
  Public Body
   
Q  
 
R Race Relations Act 1976
Railways
  Recreational Charities Act 1958
  Regeneration
  Regulation as a charitable purpose
  Relief of poverty
  Relief of sickness
  Religion
Restorative justice
 
S Schemes
  Shares
  Sickness (relief of)
  Social and economic deprivation
  Social welfare
  Sound and adminstration of the law
  Spiritualism as a charitable purpose for the advancement of religion
  Spirtual healing
  Statues, monuments and memorials
  Statutory Services
  Sustainable development
   
T  
   
U  
   
V Voluntary sector (promotion of)
   
W  
   
X  
 
Y  
 
Z