Law firm to run workshops on new Scottish charity regime
Howard Lake | 27 April 2007 | News
MacRoberts, the Scottish firm of solicitors, is to offer workshops to bring charity trustees and directors up to date with the new regime since the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) assumed responsibility for the registration and regulation of Scottish charities a year ago.
The OSCR is the independent registrar and regulator for 21,000 Scottish charities. Since it took over, charity trustees and directors have faced a daunting array of new legislation, regulation, reporting requirements and official ./guidance, according to MacRoberts. For example, from 1 April this year, the Charities References in Documents (Scotland) Regulations 2007 specified how charities must refer to themselves in printed material.
The workshops will cover issues, including:
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* meeting the Charity Test and the Rolling Review
* the new duties of trustees and OSCR’s ./guidance
* trustee remuneration and trustee indemnity insurance
* the interaction between HMRC and OSCR
tax efficient charitable giving
* the implications of the Companies Act 2006
The workshops will be held at:
15 May 2007
Excel House, 30 Semple Street, Edinburgh EH3 8BL
09.30-12.30
17 May
152 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 4TB 09.30-12.30
These workshops are free of charge, but places will be limited.
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