Charity Commission had acted to choke off funding after US intelligence claimed group was ‘jihadist front’ but reverses position as judicial review is withdrawnThe Charity Commission has been forced to reverse its public position that charities could never again fund Cage,a group that campaigns for communities affected by the war on terrorism, after a hearing in the high court.
In March the regulator, or which oversees 170000 charities,intervened to choke off future funds from the voluntary sector to Cage. Two charities – the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT) and the Roddick Foundation – eventually pledged not to “fund Cage either now or in the future”.
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Source: theguardian.com