TATOC has now been accepted as a charity doing charitable work.
Readers will note that the TCA published an article on the 17th of October
TATOC says:-
“I am really pleased with the pledges of support from such a selection of big name timeshare players. In the last few months, we have experienced a marked improvement in our profile. It seems that the industry has awoken to the power of owners who have positive things to say about the industry.
Harry (Henry) Taylor on his assessment of the 2014 video” the helpline will be To further the help line they will create a separate company to help consumers with industry advice.”
And the money keeps rolling in
And the truth is revealed- TATOC have changed the format and now they are a charity, read below:-
This case was considered in charities commission Decision Review:-
following our formal rejection of the application on the basis that we were not satisfied that the TATOC Consumer Helpline (“the Helpline”) was charitable.
The Helpline was formerly operated by the TATOC Consumer Association (“the Association”), a consumer association for timeshare owners, “run by timeshare owners for timeshare owners”, which we had declined to register as a charity on the basis that it was not exclusively charitable. However, we advised that the Association’s Helpline had the potential to be charitable. A separate organisation was set up to run the Helpline and an application submitted to register it as a charity.
The Helpline’s objects did not declare wholly charitable purposes, and we had concerns that it had not been set up to target specific charitable purposes. However, we acknowledged that some of the purposes did have the potential to be charitable. We formally rejected the Helpline’s application. The Helpline’s objects were amended and the applicant sought a review of our decision to not register the Helpline in view of the amended objects and some additional information provided.
Following a review of the information provided with the application, additional subsequent information provided by the applicant and amendments to the organisation’s objects, we have concluded that the Helpline is established for exclusively charitable purposes within the descriptions of purposes in section 3(1) of the Charities Act 2011 and for the public benefit. It is therefore entitled to be registered on the register of charities under section 29 of the Charities Act 2011.
The commission has now entered the TATOC Consumer Helpline on the register of charities.
What isSection 3 (1) of the Charities Act 2011?
Decriptions of purposes
(1) A purpose falls within this subsection if it falls within any of the following descriptions of purposes—
(a) the prevention or relief of poverty;
(b) the advancement of education;
(c) the advancement of religion;
(d) the advancement of health or the saving of lives;
(e) the advancement of citizenship or community development;
(f) the advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science;
(g) the advancement of amateur sport;
(h) the advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation or the promotion of religious or racial harmony or equality and diversity;
(i) the advancement of environmental protection or improvement;
(j) the relief of those in need because of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage;
(k) the advancement of animal welfare;
(l) the promotion of the efficiency of the armed forces of the Crown or of the efficiency of the police, fire and rescue services or ambulance services;
(m )any other purposes—
(i) that are not within paragraphs (a) to (l) but are recognised as charitable purposes by virtue of section 5 (recreational and similar trusts, etc.) or under the old law,
(ii) that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to, or within the spirit of, any purposes falling within any of paragraphs (a) to (l) or sub-paragraph (i), or
(iii) that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to, or within the spirit of, any purposes which have been recognised, under the law relating to charities in England and Wales, as falling within sub-paragraph (ii) or this sub-paragraph.
What does this mean?
TATOC charity can use gift aid to increase the value of donations from UK taxpayers.
The National Lottery’s Big Lottery Fund, can provide funds or grants to TATOC charities.
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Some people might have some Report serious concerns, other may not, some may think that the industry needs your lottery money and free tax aid from the UK tax payers. Now thats, what you call Groud-breaking.
If you choose to complain to the Charity Commission, for example if a charity is:
not doing what it claims to do
losing lots of money
harming people
being used for personal profit or gain
involved in illegal activity
Then again you can nothing, and enjoy the charitable advice, the heat felt protection TATOC offers, the un-contaminated assistance and kindness of the Industry sponsored help line give consumers who want to complain about them.
Well done TATOC, you have reached new hights in our book
For more information regarding this article or assistance in any other timeshare related issues please contact the TCA on 01908 881058 or email: info@TimeshareConsumerAssociation.org.uk