Is charitable status a boon or a burden?

摘要

I write as a non-practising pharmacist and a non-practising law graduate. My view is that our Royal Pharmaceutical Society with its special dual role should beware of the financial lure of charitable status. Many of the Society's activities that we take for granted at present could fall foul of the rules. I can all to easily envisage endless dialogue with the powers that be over such activities, with inevitable delays: a characteristic of officialdom not unfamilar to pharmacists.