Trustees have a legal responsibility to ‘have due regard to’ the Commission’s guidance on public benefit. Registered charities must publish an annual report with disclosures setting out the charity’s activities for the public benefit. By reporting on public benefit, trustees are able to identify that their charity is effectively doing what it was set up to do and is making a difference to its beneficiaries.
CCEW reviewed 107 accounts and found that 90% of the annual reports discussed what the charity was set up to do and its activities during the year, however many did not consider what difference they had made to their beneficiaries and include the required statement that the trustees had considered the CCEW guidance on public benefit reporting.
Full details of this accounts monitoring report can be found on the CCEW website.
Updated 25 October 2017
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