5th March 2007, 02:28 PM
Quote:quote:I would suggest that charities by definition must have the resource for their charitable purpose which could include situations like this.The charitable purpose is likely to be clearly defined and specific - it need not include situations like this, although it could.
I suspect that a charity that uses its charitable resources to support something not included in its specific charitable purpose might actually be breaking the law. Cancer research charities, for instance, would not be able to support research into diabetes - even though it might be an equally worthy medical cause.
That doesn't mean that the big (charitable) units needn't support this kind of situation - but they would need to do it out of their commercial resources, possibly on the basis of 'corporate social responsibility'. Their status as charities would be irrelevant.
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