Dear Sirs

Freedom of Information legislation for charities?

In recent years, many charities have become almost indistinguishable
in structure from large business organisations with the difference
being that they are almost totally financed by public money in the
form of tax benefits, funding from the taxpayer, and donations from
the general public. However, they are often reluctant to answer what
they see as awkward questions from the public about their involvement
in controversial policies or forensic scrutiny of their spending for
fear of losing public support.  

In the present economic climate it is not time to consider that
charities, perhaps with a threshold of £1million or more annual
income, should be subject to Freedom of Information legislation to
enable the public to make truly informed choices as to which ones they
wish to support with their ever decreasing disposable income.


Yours faithfully



Angus Macmillan
www.roots-of-blood.org.uk
www.killhunting.org
www.con-servation.org.uk

All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed; and
Third, it is accepted as self-evident. 
-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)