This report includes grants paid under the Charities Act 2006, Section 70, for the financial year 2014-15. Throughout 2014-15, the Home Office has made grants totalling £1,074,630 to organisations under the provisions of the Charities Act 2006. In all cases, the funding matched both the aims and objectives of the Home Office, as well as those of the recipients. This spending does not represent the total amount of grant funding provided to the Voluntary and Community Sector, as many other grants have been paid to this sector under the powers conferred by alternative legislation. Within Crime and Policing Group (CPG), Grants of £540,000 have been paid to a range of Third Sector partners contributing to reducing crime. The activities that this funding has contributed towards included supporting wider Home Office crime reduction objectives

This Act is in four parts. The first part deals with the definition of charity and charitable purposes. The second part deals with the regulation of charities including: the establishment of the Charities Commission (the existing Commission has no legal existence as a body); the creation of a tribunal to hear appeals; registration of charities; and new powers for the Commission. Part three deals with fundraising and part four contains miscellaneous provisions including a requirement for a review of the operation of the Act within five years

In this volume charity commissioners and leading charity policy reformers from across the world reflect on the aims and objectives of charity regulation and what it has achieved. Regulating Charities represents an insider’s review of the last quarter century of charity law policy and an insight for its future development. Charity Commissioners and nonprofit regulatory agency heads chart the nature of charity law reforms that they have implemented, with a ‘warts and all’ analysis. They are joined by influential sector reformers who assess the outcomes of their policy agitation. All reflect on the current state of charities in a fiscally restrained environment, often with conservative governments, and offer their views on productive regulatory paths available for the future. This topical collection brings together major charity regulation actors, and will be of great interest to anyone concerned with contemporary third sector policy-making, public administration and civil society.