Charities snowed under by regulations

Charities are snowed under with increasing reporting requirements and many risk bucking under the pressure, a conference has heard.

The Wheel, an organisation which represents the charities sector, said the administrative burden needs to be eased and that the State, when it is funding charities, should make an additional contribution to the costs of the additional reporting requirements many such groups have taken on in recent years.

The National Summit for the Charity Sector, held at Croke Park, heard of one example from Cope Galway, which had to deal with 17 different entities to comply with reporting and administrative regulations in the course of its work.