This section brings together our guidance, reports, key decisions and other resources that could help trustees understand the scope of ‘the advancement of citizenship or community development’.
What is meant by ‘the advancement of citizenship or community development’?
1. The advancement of citizenship or community development covers a broad group of charitable purposes directed towards support for social and community infrastructure which is focused on the community rather than the individual.
2. Examples of the sorts of charities and charitable purposes falling within this description include:
- the promotion of civic responsibility and good citizenship, such as good citizenship award schemes, Scout and Guide groups; etc;
- the promotion of urban and rural regeneration;
- the promotion of volunteering;
- the promotion of the voluntary sector;
- promoting the efficiency and effectiveness of charities and the effective use of charitable resources;
- the promotion of community capacity building;
- charities concerned with social investment.
Charity Commission guidance
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Promotion of Urban and Rural Regeneration (RR2)
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This guidance explains the extent to which the promotion of urban and rural regeneration is charitable for the public benefit.
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Charities for the Relief of Unemployment (RR3)
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This guidance explains the extent to which the relief of unemployment is charitable for the public benefit.
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The Promotion of Community Capacity Building (RR5)
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This guidance explains the meaning of the promotion of community capacity building for the public benefit.
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Promotion of the Voluntary Sector for the Benefit of the Public (RR13)
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This guidance explains the extent to which the promotion of the voluntary sector for the public benefit is charitable.
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Promoting the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Charities and the Effective Use of Charitable Resources for the Benefit of the Public (RR14)
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This guidance provides criteria for determining when organisations concerned with promoting the efficiency and effectiveness of charities and the effective use of charitable resources for the benefit of the public can themselves be regarded as charitable.
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The Promotion of Social Inclusion
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This guidance is for the trustees of existing charities, and anyone thinking of setting up a new charity, who wish to include the promotion of social inclusion as one or more of their charity's aims.
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Related decisions of the Commission
Guidestar UK
Consideration of an application for charitable status by an organisation set up to establish and maintain a comprehensive database about the charitable sector. The Commission recognised that the promotion of the voluntary sector for the benefit of the public was a new charitable purpose being analogous to the promotion of commerce and industry, promoting the moral and spiritual welfare or improvement of the community and promoting good citizenship. Public benefit was also satisfied. Taking into account the nature of its activities and evidence presented about their potential impact, the Commission was satisfied that Guidestar was established for the exclusively charitable purpose of promoting the voluntary sector for the benefit of the public by the provision of the database in the manner proposed.
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