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What does Charitable purposes mean? In legal practice, charitable purposes are the legally recognised aims that qualify an organisation as a charity and determine how its objects are drafted, interpreted and regulated. Across England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland, the concept is principally statutory and informed by case law: Charities Act 2011 (E&W), Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005, Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 and Charities Act 2009 (Ireland). Typical purposes include the relief of poverty; advancement of education, religion, health, citizenship or community development; arts, culture or heritage; environmental protection; human rights; animal welfare; amateur sport; and other analogous purposes. A...

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Reverter of land gifted for educational, religious and benevolent purposes: pre‑1987 position, Reverter of Sites Act 1987, TOLATA trusts and charitable schemes (England and Wales)

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From the mid-nineteenth century, Parliament promoted gifts of land by individuals for charitable and/or other benevolent ends (especially concerning education and religion) by permitting the land concerned to return back to the original owner, or their heirs, if the land stopped being used, whether indefinitely or for a stated period of time, for the very purpose for which it had first been originally bestowed when granted...

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