A key aim and challenge of Lord Hodgson’s July review of the Charities Act 2006 was to find a balance between avoiding burdening small charities with red tape, and ensuring that unregistered charities are not disadvantaged.

The review sought to achieve this balance by proposing that the threshold above which charities must register with the Charity Commission should be raised frmo £5,000 to £25,000 a year, potentially leaving half of the organisations currently registered with the regulator with an ‘unregistered charity’ status that an estimated 400,000 charitable organisations currently have. Read more »