Legislation 'causes difficulties for small charities'
Charities
15th September 2009
The legislation governing the UK's charity sector poses problems for smaller organisations, according to one woman who has experienced it firsthand.
Judy Ledger, Baby Lifeline's founder and chief executive, said she can understand why a lot of the red tape is in place, but suggested some of it is old-fashioned and needs to be changed.
Larger charities do not have too much of a problem because they have the resources to deal with it; however, this is not always the case for their smaller counterparts, she indicated.
"For a smaller charity it is a nightmare," Ms Ledger explained. "I do think that a lot of things should be updated and that charity legislation in some form is archaic."
Her comments were made following the Office of the Third Sector's launch of a consultation on a draft bill that would see the laws set out in the Recreational Charities Act 1958, Charities Act 1993 and most of the Charities Act 2006 merged into one piece of legislation.
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