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What is the Captain Tom Foundation and what is its future?

The charity was set up in the wake of mammoth fundraising efforts by a Second World War veteran who captured the nation’s hearts.

The Independent UK

Charity Commission to review its handling of actors’ fund feud

Regulator accused of taking sides and disregarding law in supervision of boardroom dispute at Actors’ Benevolent Fund

The Guardian - UK

Watchdog guidance clarifies charities’ rights on political campaigning

Charities can use social media to engage in campaigning and political activity so long as they abide by the rules, the regulator said.

The Independent UK

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Charities can campaign on ‘issues that provoke strong emotions’ – watchdog

Exclusive: In wake of RSPB tweet controversy, Charity Commission says voluntary sector entitled to engage in political activity

The Guardian - UK

Captain Tom’s daughter was paid £70,000 as donations fell, accounts show

The Charity Commission launched an inquiry into the Captain Tom Foundation in June last year.

The Independent UK

There’s no law says a charity can’t hold views you disagree with. Even on gender-identity issues

The courts have acted as a backstop of sanity in throwing out Mermaids’ attempt to have LGB Alliance stripped of its status

The Guardian - UK

Captain Tom Moore's daughter charging up to £3,500 for 'life coaching' amid controversy

Hannah Ingram-Moore became an "accredited" executive life coach in February and charges clients a range of fees for her services, it has emerged, amid controversy over the charity in her father's name

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What future for the Captain Tom Foundation after another PR fiasco?

This week’s headlines about a pool in the home of the late fundraiser’s daughter have left the foundation far from where it began in the public’s affections

The Guardian - UK

Charity Commission urges tolerance of opposing views after tribunal ruling

A transgender group lost its legal challenge over a gay rights organisation’s status as a charity.

The Independent UK

Trans children’s charity Mermaids fails to have charitable status stripped from LGB Alliance

Judges say law does not allow group to challenge charitable status of new organisation with opposing views

The Guardian - UK

Maindy Park land swap application to pave the way for new school is 'immiment', says Cardiff council

If approved by the Charity Commission, the land swap will pave the way for a new school

Wales Online

Update on probe into Captain Tom charity one year on

The Charity Commission launched an investigation in 2022

Wales Online

Suella Braverman accused of fresh ministerial code breaches over undisclosed links to Rwanda

Exclusive: Home secretary was the director of a charity providing training to Rwandan government lawyers for five years

The Independent UK

Suella Braverman accused of fresh ministerial code breaches over undisclosed links to Rwanda

Exclusive: Home secretary was the director of a charity providing training to Rwandan government lawyers for five years

The Independent UK

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Manchester Evening News

Police increase patrols to protect Didsbury Mosque following Arena bomb inquiry criticism

Although it played no part in the radicalisation of the bomber, the leader of the south Manchester mosque was accused of 'wilful blindness' and 'unreliable' evidence which 'downplayed' links to the Abedi family

Wales Online

Plans to expand school at expense of historic velodrome take major step foward

However, the council's decision is subject to consent being given by the Charity Commission

Manchester Evening News

Leaders of Didsbury Mosque attended by Arena bomber guilty of 'wilful blindness' to highly-charged debate about Libya conflict before atrocity, inquiry finds

But the mosque was not an ‘active factor or cause’ in the radicalisation of suicide bomber Salman Abedi and his accomplice brother Hashem, the inquiry concluded

Daily Mirror

Veterans' charity boss fired for gross misconduct as questions asked about financial irregularities

Trustees left "trying to save" veterans' charity after firing CEO for 32 "misdemeanours"

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Daily Mirror

Wildlife charity linked to Carrie Johnson faces probe over £50,000 interior design bill

Carrie Johnson's boss wife's Victoria Aspinall or her firm received £352,658 over a four-year period from two charities. The £50,000 from Howletts Wild Animal Trust (HWAT) was in 2021

Wales Online

Next steps for Maindy Park in Cardiff after controversial decision on land swap

If a proposed land swap involving land at Maindy Park goes ahead it will pave the way for the expansion of Cathays High

Wales Online

Key decision made on future of historic Welsh velodrome

The independent committee will make a recommendation to Cardiff Council's cabinet

The Guardian - UK

Watchdog investigates charity set up by UK billionaire over £16m ski clubhouse

Exclusive: Jim Ratcliffe Foundation helps fund exclusive facility at club where he and his daughter have skied for years

Daily Record

Michelle Mone’s husband in row over charity donations to firm run by ex-Tory leader IDS

Charity bankrolled by Doug Barrowman donated nearly £500,000 to Centre for Social Justice, co-founded by Iain Duncan Smith.

Evening Standard

Ex-boss of homelessness charity ‘spent thousands on luxury travel and meals’

Both CEO Lee Dribben and his father Lee oversaw the spending of thousands of pounds of foundation cash on the upkeep and repair of properties they personally owned

The Guardian - UK

Ex-homelessness charity bosses get 15-year ban for misuse of funds

Charity Commission inquiry showed Ashley and Lee Dribben spent large sums meant for vulnerable people on themselves

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