Press Release

Three-year plan for Charity Commission - Refreshed strategic plan sets vision, mission and values to 2011

6 August 2008
 
The Charity Commission, the independent regulator and registrar of charities in England and Wales, has today published its strategic plan for 2008-11, the latest step in the delivery of its 2005 strategic review. The new plan confirms the direction established in the original review and sets out details of the Commission’s refreshed vision, mission and values for the next three years.
 
The refreshed strategic plan acknowledges the Commission’s achievements since 2005, including the creation of its award-winning contact centre; consultations and guidance on public benefit; and allowing charities to file accounts online. It also reflects on the restructuring and changes made over the last 12 months that will enable the Commission to deliver on its key aims and objectives for the next three years in the current funding climate.
 
The plan shows how the Commission has taken steps to ensure it can deliver on revised strategic outcomes in line with the new objectives given to the Commission by Parliament in the Charities Act 2006. In addition, it emphasises that the Commission is an independent regulator of the charitable sector, adding Independent as a new value, to run alongside the existing values of Effective, Expert, Fair, Innovative and Responsive.
 
It also identifies a number of key strategic themes that will influence the Commission’s priorities, shape its performance and ensure it delivers against its mission and strategic outcomes over the next three years. These include:
 
 - continuing our commitment to modern, risk-based regulation;
- delivering organisational change and valuing our people;
- independent, objective decision-making and leadership;
- driving the accountability of charities to the public;
- delivering faster, more efficient services to our customers;
- and completing implementation of the Charities Act 2006.
 
The Commission’s Chief Executive, Andrew Hind, said:
 
"We’ve taken great steps over the last three years in ensuring that the Commission operates as an effective, independent and modern regulator. Our strategic review in 2005 was a vital step in taking stock of where we were and where we wanted to be. Our refreshed plan for the next three years is the next step in delivering the goals established in that review, and in the ongoing transformation of the Commission."
 
The Charity Commission’s Strategic Plan 2008-2011 is available from its website at www.charitycommission.gov.uk.