# Charities Bill Coalition joined by financial services providers

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2003/05/14/charities-bill-coalition-joined-financial-services-providers/
- Published: 2003-05-14T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The campaign for a charities bill received a boost this week with the announcement
that both the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) and the Charity Finance Directors’ 
Group (CFDG) have become members of the Charities Bill

Coalition.
The coalition now has 29 members. Other recent additions include Leonard
Cheshire and Marie Curie Cancer Care.

Stephen Ainger, Chief Executive of CAF, said: ‘CAF believes that the momentum for
reform of charity law must be maintained by early legislation. To delay would mean
kicking real change into the long grass.”

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Shirley Scott, Director of the Charity Finance Directors’ Group said: “It’s important
not to lose the impetus for change created by the two Government reviews published
last year. Several of the recommended changes will facilitate more straight forward
accounting, especially in charity trading, which our members will welcome.”

Recently, the Charities Bill Coalition wrote 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.

The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) launched a campaign

for a Charities Bill at the Labour Party Conference in October 2002. The Charities
Bill Coalition was launched at NCVO’s Annual Conference in February 2003 at which
time the Home Secretary announced that a draft bill would be prepared for pre-legislative
scrutiny.

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