This is a significant victory for ACEVO and the wider charity
sector in our mission to ensure that charities remain free to campaign. We are
pleased to see that our message has been heard and our consistent pressure has
paid off. The Charity Commission has listened and we welcome that.
Declaring spending on campaigns has nothing to do with
transparency and everything to do with pandering to a meaningless and
infantilised debate that suggests charities should ‘put up and shut up.’ Our
view is clear: it would be a dereliction of duty for any charity to see
injustice or poverty and not speak up about it – and a dereliction of duty for
the regulator to encourage it.
We hope this will bring this nonsense to an end, and we’ll
continue to work closely with the Commission and to monitor events carefully.
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