# Should Eton have charitable status?

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2001/03/14/should-eton-have-charitable-status/
- Published: 2001-03-14T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

GuardianSociety notes that Eton College is now ranked in the top 100 charities with
a 1999 income of 28.2m.

 

 

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GuardianSociety notes that Eton College is now ranked in the top 100 charities with
a 1999 income of 28.2m. Although an exempt rather than registered charity, Eton’s
ranking in the Charity Finance magazine survey raises the issue of how to frame 
a modern definition of a charity in terms of public benefit.

 

 

 

 

Read Eton hits top 100 charities index amid public benefit debate by David Brindle
at SocietyGuardian.

 

 

 

 

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