The Charity Commission has published the next bits of its draft supplementary guidance on public benefit, these looking at Public Benefit and the Advancement of Education and Public Benefit and Fee-charging.

The education guidance, said the Commission, examines how advancing education can be for the public benefit and how educative value can come from either the subject of education or the educative process. The fee-charging guidance looks at the effects that fee-charging might have on who can benefit from charities, and ways to ensure that those who cannot afford the fees can still benefit.

The Commission’s chair Dame Suzi Leather said: “Although some debate has focused on independent schools, this new draft supplementary guidance is intended to help all charities that charge fees, whatever the particular focus of their work, to explain the public benefit they provide.”

Visit www.charitycommission.gov.uk to see the consultation documents.