The Latest Breaking News from Charity Commission

Captain Tom Moore gin pulled from sale after ‘breach of charity law’

Exclusive: Bottles of £100 gin removed from distillery’s website after questions raised by The Independent

The Independent UK · May 10, 2022

Inquiry launched into Russian oligarch’s charity which donated £9m to Marylebone royal hospital

Billionaire Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor’s charity donated to the royal hospital and a charity set up by the Prince of Wales

Evening Standard · Apr 23, 2022

Inquiry into oligarch’s charity which donated to royal hospital

An inquiry has been launched into a sanctioned oligarch’s charity, which donated to a royal hospital and a charity set up by the Prince of Wales.

The Independent UK · Apr 23, 2022

Ban for former Paralympian whose charity paid £1m to family companies

Regulator also used courts to recover funds after only £300,000 of £6m raised was spent on charitable purposes

The Guardian - UK · Apr 7, 2022

Charity linked to UK anti-onshore wind campaigns active again

Analysis: Renewable Energy Foundation says it does not see renewables as a large part of net zero strategy

The Guardian - UK · Apr 5, 2022

Nadine Dorries hands top charity role to candidate rejected by MPs

Orlando Fraser to chair Charity Commission despite select committee calling him ‘slapdash and unimaginative choice’

The Guardian - UK · Apr 1, 2022

Nadine Dorries appoints new charity regulator in face of objections from parliamentary committee

Government choice Orlando Fraser confirmed as head of Charity Commission, while Michael Grade gets Ofcom job

The Independent UK · Apr 1, 2022

MPs reject government’s ‘unimaginative’ choice for Charity Commission chair

Committee says it has reservations over selection process and lack of diversity in shortlist

The Guardian - UK · Mar 31, 2022

Didsbury Mosque responds to Manchester Arena bombing inquiry criticism

The bombing atrocity in May 2017 claimed 22 lives

Manchester Evening News · Mar 29, 2022

‘If I am appointed,’ says the QC in line for charity commissioner. He will be

When a plum post is in the government’s gift, there’s little MPs can do to change the same-old same-old

The Guardian - UK · Mar 27, 2022