# Major charities support Charity Commission's call for improved reporting

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2002/08/31/major-charities-support-charity-commission039s-call-improved-reporting/
- Published: 2002-08-31T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Major charities have given a warm welcome to the Chief Charity Commissioner’s call
for more detailed narrative in charities’ annual reports.
Some of them felt that
they were already achieving the high standards laid out by John Stoker’s recent 
letter. Others acknowledged the need to move beyond a simple technical compliance
with accounting reporting and present a more rounded and detailed narrative.

Read Charities back call for greater openness by Nicola Hill at SocietyGuardian.

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