TRUST: Consider whether the following purposes are, and ought to be charitable. Various examples fol

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TRUST: Consider whether the following purposes are, and ought to be charitable. Various examples fol

Consider whether the following purposes are, and ought to be charitable.

(a) providing scholarships to assist students to learn ballroom dancing while at university. With the condition that the trustees may, in applying up to 75% of the income of the trust, give preference to children of employees of Capezio Ltd. ;

(b) campaigning for a modern national health service in Ishmaliland, a country plagued by poverty and disease, where there are strong religious objections to medical procedures which involve any invasion of the body, such as surgery or vaccination by syringe;

(c) support of the work of Osiris, a cult whose way of life and philosophy is based on an interpretation of ancient Egyptian supernatural beliefs, and whose doctrines require adherents to cut themselves off entirely from their families and retire to Osirian communities, where they make themselves available several times each month to discuss their faith with members of the public.

In deciding if a purpose of either a trust or corporation (henceforth trusts) is charitable at law it must fall within one of the four