Should Eton have charitable status?

Howard Lake | 14 March 2001 | News

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

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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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.