Brethren Churches And The Charities Commission

EDM number 398 in 2012-13, proposed by Robert Halfon on 12/07/2012.
Categorised under the topics of Charities and Religion and faith communities.

That this House notes the decision of the Charity Commission to revoke the charitable status of a trust that is part of the Brethren Christian Church, which does a lot of good work for charity and community groups; believes that this is an extremely important test case because it has widespread implications for all Christian charitable trusts; and therefore calls on the Government and all parliamentarians to express their belief to the Charities Commission that Christian groups who are serving the community have the right to charitable status and should not be subject to politically correct bias.

This motion has been signed by a total of 79 MPs.