Commission declines registration
Odstock Private Care Limited, was set up with a loan from the Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust, to carry out private patient work using Salisbury District Hospital’s facilities, something that a statutory limit prevented the NHS Foundation Trust from charging for itself
The Charity Commission has declined Odstock’s registration as a charity on the Central Register of Charities because ‘those living in poverty had not been shown to be capable of benefiting in a real sense, either directly or indirectly’. The requirement for the applicants to show public benefit in this case was not…discharged’. The initial application for registration was refused on 26 January 2007 on grounds of lack of public benefit. Odstock applied for this decision to be reviewed under the heading by which charitable purposes are broadly grouped ‘certain other purposes for the benefit of the community’. Andrew Hind, CEO of the Commission explained ‘Providing healthcare facilities can obviously be charitable, but not if those benefits are only available to those who have the means to pay, and not to others.’
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