{"id":269,"date":"2011-12-12T13:50:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T13:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/?p=269"},"modified":"2021-10-18T08:26:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T08:26:23","slug":"investigating-academy-charities-and-other-nonprofits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2011\/12\/investigating-academy-charities-and-other-nonprofits\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigating academy charities and other nonprofits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"float: right;\" ><a class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-via=\"\" data-count=\"none\" data-related=\"mohanjith:S H Mohanjith\" data-lang=\"en\" data-url=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2011\/12\/investigating-academy-charities-and-other-nonprofits\/\" data-text=\"Investigating academy charities and other nonprofits\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=&#038;count=none&#038;related=mohanjith%3AS%20H%20Mohanjith&#038;lang=en&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fhelpmeinvestigate.com%2Feducation%2F2011%2F12%2Finvestigating-academy-charities-and-other-nonprofits%2F&#038;text=Investigating%20academy%20charities%20and%20other%20nonprofits\" >Tweet<\/a><\/span>Over on the main Help Me Investigate blog, Chris Dodd has written <a title=\"Investigating academy schools, charities and nonprofits\" href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.posterous.com\/investigating-charities-non-profits\">a guide to investigating nonprofit companies<\/a>, including Academy Schools which, Dodd points out:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230; are regulated by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.education.gov.uk\/\">Department for Education (DfE)<\/a>. It\u2019s worth noting that all three regulatory bodies [the Charity Commission, Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator and DfE] are subject to the Freedom of Information act, which means that you may be able to uncover information about a charity&#8217;s compliance with the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukpga\/2006\/50\/contents\">Charities Act 2006<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Regardless of whether or not the organisation you are investigating is registered as a charity, it is worth searching the records at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.companieshouse.gov.uk\/\">Companies House<\/a>\u00a0to find further information.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"Investigating academy schools, charities and nonprofits\" href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.posterous.com\/investigating-charities-non-profits\">More tips on the original blog post<\/a>. Can you add any?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TweetOver on the main Help Me Investigate blog, Chris Dodd has written a guide to investigating nonprofit companies, including Academy Schools which, Dodd points out: &#8220;&#8230; are regulated by\u00a0Department for Education (DfE). It\u2019s worth noting that all three regulatory bodies &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2011\/12\/investigating-academy-charities-and-other-nonprofits\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[125,128,127,129,36,44,126],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1330,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/1330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}