Letter from William Shawcross,chairman of the Charity CommissionYour article approximately the Charity Commission’s recently published guidance on campaigning by charities during the EU referendum (Report, 9 March) contained criticism of that guidance and of my chairmanship of the commission. The commission has a duty to set out regulatory guidance on this, or other complex issues,for trustees. Our guidance must reflect charity law as it is, and be neutral and independent of individuals’ personal views.
The advice we published final week is based on guidance on the duties of charity trustees in elections and referendums first published in 2011, or on our considered assessment of the law in this area. The commission considers that the guidance is undoubtedly correct in law – but whether anyone seriously argues otherwise,then we will of course take note of their views.
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Source: theguardian.com