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Charities Bill [HL]

I support my noble friend’s amendment. He said that a charity would need gross assets of £100,000. That may be the case. It would be the case with a grant-making charity that was going to give £10,000 away to other charities. But very small charities with an income of £10,000 can be doing a lot of good work. They may not want to register. They may have no need to register if all their income is coming from local sources who know and approve of what they are doing and support them. However, if they are working on a bigger scale and need to get their money from the grant-making trusts, they will need to register—and will register of their own volition because the majority of grant-making trusts will not give to charities unless they are registered. So my noble friend is granting relief to those small, local charities, supported by local people, that do not need to register. I fully support him on the figure.