What are the rules that affect charities ability to campaign?
The published resources on the topic are extensive and have been considered at length since CTC first considered moving its campaigning activity to CTC Charitable Trust in 2004. The most important of these is the Charity Commission Guidance which can be seen in full here So for instance CTC Charitable Trust is about to launch a Vote Bike campaign in which we will urge cyclists to contact parliamentary candidates in the run-up to the election, urging them to support certain measures which CTC is calling for in relation to the promotion of cycling (this being central to our charitable objectives). We will then publicise the responses from parliamentarians and urge cyclists to take account of their opinions when deciding who to vote for. What we aren’t allowed to do is to suggest a vote for a particular party – that would be party-political campaigning, contrary to the rules. However cycling is not a party-political issue, indeed CTC attracts support (both from cyclists and parliamentaria
