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J.R. Brewing
Posted on October 8th, 2010 by Matthew Burgess, under News, Politics, Private Schools and Charitable StatusYesterday, the High Court granted permission for ISC to pursue our judicial review of the Charity Commission’s public benefit guidance. Whilst this is excellent news, one might wonder why we needed to go to the effort (not to mention expense) of…
Why Schools are Charities
Posted on September 8th, 2009 by Matthew Burgess, under Politics, Private Schools, Private Schools and Charitable Status, Public AffairsMost of us will have opinions about independent schools. It’s also very likely that we think we know what charity means. Put together these two preconceptions, and it’s easy to see why there is such a spectrum of views about whether schools…