Ethical belief consultation out this week

By Paul Jump, Third Sector Online, 2 September 2008

The Charity Commission will this week launch a consultation on draft supplementary guidance it has produced on public benefit and charities that advance moral or ethical belief systems.

The document, Public Benefit and the Advancement of Moral or Ethical Belief Systems , is aimed at non-religious charities such as humanist and rationalist charities. Dame Suzi Leather, chair of the commission , said: "Non-religious belief systems can be charitable because they advance other aims regarded in law as charitable,...

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