Charity Times news - Government-funded charities should lose charitable status,

Charity Times news - Government-funded charities should lose charitable status,: "Government-funded charities should lose charitable status,
report claims 07/02/07

State-funded charities should lose their charitable status, according to a controversial new report published by think tank Civitas.

The paper, Who cares?, written by writer and journalist Nick Seddon, claims charities that derive more than 70 per cent of their income from the state have reached a level of dependency that makes them part of the state, rather than civil society. Those organisations should lose their charitable status in order to preserve the integrity of the third sector, Seddon argues."