Selling goods and services by charities: a clearer view of an emerging picture
✍ Scribed by Paul Palmer; David Wise; Derek Penney
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 113 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1465-4520
- DOI
- 10.1002/nvsm.63
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
The role of voluntary organisations in society and the way such organisations are able to gain finance to support their role, is a continuing source of interest. Charities appear to be becoming more commercial in their selling of goods and services to augment their traditional sources of income.
Such trading activity raises sensitive issues of topical interest; notably the way in which charities' income is taxed and the perception of competition between charities and private traders.
The research, commissioned by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO), throws light on these issues by revealing the nature and extent of trading by charities using authoritative data and a statistically sound sample of charities engaged in trading.
Because of legal and taxation constraints on charities, much trading is carried out by subsidiaries rather than by the charities themselves. This study is the first to examine specifically the use of subsidiary companies and to focus on competitive issues. Copyright © 1999 Henry Stewart Publications