# Time to change charity law?

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2001/01/26/time-change-charity-law/
- Published: 2001-01-26T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The definition of what constitutes a charity is 400 years old. Surely it is time
to update charity law to reflect the changes in charitable activity seen in the 
past four centuries?

So says Joe Saxton in Charity law in need of a makeover at SocietyGuardian.

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