With just over a year since it took up its powers, The Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator held its first conference to outline its activities since April 2006.

In the past year OSCR has, among other things: removed over 8,000 ‘ceased’ charities from the Scottish Charity Register; granted charitable status to 1,261 new charities; and issued its first direction to an organisation to cease representing itself as a charity when it was not on the Scottish Register.

It has also announced its rolling review of charitable status from this month, and published its draft corporate plan, outlining its strategic priorities to 2010.

For more on OSCR visit www.oscr.org.uk