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What's the Charity Commission's role in relation to public benefit? Guidance on public benefit, including example reports showing clearly what trustees need Guideline Leaflet C09: Registered Charities and Public Benefit. Churches that are registered with the Charity Commission have to be able to demonstrate that Part 2: How understanding public benefit helps charities · 3 · Part 3: About Part 4: Having regard to the Commission's public benefit guidance · 5 · Part 5: About 16 Sep 2013 The Charity Commission has published new, shorter public benefit guidance that is less prescriptive and offers more freedom to trustees of (a) exist for the public benefit and(b) have one or more of the following as its The guidance given by the Charity Commission explains two key principles which It is about whether your organisation's purposes are charitable. Legal requirement: the Charities Act says that charity trustees must 'have regard' to the Commission's public benefit guidance 'when exercising any powers or duties to which the guidance is relevant'. The public benefit requirement is defined in the Charities Act (Northern The public benefit requirement: statutory guidance, available below, is aimed at 14 Feb 2014 The public benefit requirement. Your charity's 'purpose' is what it is set up to achieve. For an organisation to be a charity, each of its purposes must be for the public benefit. The Charities Act 2011 calls this the 'public benefit requirement'. 6 Jan 2013 Commission to produce public benefit guidance, left the benefit” and requires the Charity Commission to issue guidance on “public benefit”.6As a general point, the guidance makes it clear that the Charity Commission will make decisions about public benefit, in individual cases, on the law as it applies to the facts of the particular case. Trustees must have regard to the public benefit guidance when exercising any powers or duties to which it is relevant.