# Charities Bill Coalition asks PM for support

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2003/04/02/charities-bill-coalition-asks-pm-support/
- Published: 2003-04-02T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The Charities Bill Coalition has written to the Prime Minister and his Cabinet Ministers
encouraging them to support the reform of charity law and

urging them to press their colleagues in the Home Office to commit to a charities
Bill in this year’s Queen’s speech.
Tony Blair and 19 different Cabinet Ministers
received the letter signed by the 24 members of the Charities Bill Coalition this
week. It draws their attention to the recommendation by the Cabinet’s own Strategy
Unit that charitable status in law should be based on the principle of public benefit.

It also welcomed the Home Secretary’s recognition that it is essential, in the interest
of preserving public trust and confidence in charities, that a new Charities Bill
is drafted.

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