C1Part 8Charity accounts, reports and returns

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CHAPTER 4Annual reports and returns and public access to accounts etc.

Annual reports etc.

162AF1Annual reports: fund-raising standards information

1

If section 144(2) applies to a financial year of a charity, the annual report in respect of that year must include a statement of each of the following for that year—

a

the approach taken by the charity to activities by the charity or by any person on behalf of the charity for the purpose of fund-raising, and in particular whether a professional fund-raiser or commercial participator carried on any of those activities;

b

whether the charity or any person acting on behalf of the charity was subject to an undertaking to be bound by any voluntary scheme for regulating fund-raising, or any voluntary standard of fund-raising, in respect of activities on behalf of the charity, and, if so, what scheme or standard;

c

any failure to comply with a scheme or standard mentioned under paragraph (b);

d

whether the charity monitored activities carried on by any person on behalf of the charity for the purpose of fund-raising, and, if so, how it did so;

e

the number of complaints received by the charity or a person acting on its behalf about activities by the charity or by a person on behalf of the charity for the purpose of fund-raising;

f

what the charity has done to protect vulnerable people and other members of the public from behaviour within subsection (2) in the course of, or in connection with, such activities.

2

The behaviour within this subsection is—

a

unreasonable intrusion on a person's privacy;

b

unreasonably persistent approaches for the purpose of soliciting or otherwise procuring money or other property on behalf of the charity;

c

placing undue pressure on a person to give money or other property.

3

In this section—

a

“commercial participator” and “professional fund-raiser” have the meaning given by section 58 of the Charities Act 1992 (control of fund-raising: interpretation));

b

“fund-raising” means soliciting or otherwise procuring money or other property for charitable purposes.

4

Section 58(6) and (7) of the Charities Act 1992 (references to soliciting money etc) apply for the purposes of this section as they apply for the purposes of Part 2 of that Act.