Faith Based Charities

K Dudakia made this Freedom of Information request to Charity Commission for England and Wales

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From: K Dudakia

15 July 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

I should be grateful if you can furnish me with data/information
that addresses the following query (please include in your reply
specific data/information relating to Christian, Muslim, Hindu,
Sikh, Jewish faiths):

a. How many registered charities do you have from the various faith
communities (please give data for each of the past 10 years)?

b. What is the total annual income of these charities (by each
faith and for each of the past 10 years)?

c. What is the total annual expenditure of these charities (by each
faith and for each of the past 10 years)?

d. What proportion of these charities lodge their annual return in
time (by each faith and for each of the past 10 years)?

e. Where charities do not lodge their annual return in time, what
is the average length of delay (by each faith and for each of the
past 10 years)?

f. How many faith based charities have been investigated formally
by the Charity Commission (by each faith and for each of the past
10 years)?

g. How many faith based charities investigated by the Charity
Commission have been found guilty of breaching any aspect of the
requirement under Charity Law and Charity Commission requirements
(by each faith and for each of the past 10 years)?

h. How many faith based charities have had their Charity status
revoked (by each faith and for each of the past 10 years)?

Yours faithfully,

K Dudakia

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15 July 2009

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From: Caroline Brown
Charity Commission for England and Wales

10 August 2009

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Dear Mr Dudakia

Please find attached a response to the request below.

Best wishes

Caroline Brown

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Louise Ferguson left an annotation (25 October 2009)

How odd. They've pdf'd each page or part-page of their response as a separate document. So 3 pdfs for a 2.5 page letter.

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Louise Ferguson left an annotation (25 October 2009)

They have not provided any 10-year data for points f, g etc. Only for the last 2 years.
I should also point out that several individual investigation reports I have looked for on their website for recent years (e.g. 2005) are now no longer there.

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Louise Ferguson left an annotation (26 October 2009)

Right, they actually seem to *remove* the reports from their website after a max of 6 months. Seems a strange thing to do (once they've been uploaded).

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K Dudakia left an annotation (29 October 2009)

Yep - I am keeping track of this information and/or lack of detail give to thus far.

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