The Charity Commission released a report on 9th April concluding findings of the management of the Garden Bridge Trust by its trustees. The Commission has said:
“Our statement of strategic intent makes clear that, in order to fulfil that purpose, we must understand the wider context in which charities work and lead thinking about how charities can thrive in a changing world, helping to shape and update the environment in which they operate and the wider debate on their future activities.”
In the report, the Commission calls the Garden Bridge project “a high profile and expensive failure” and they have set out suggestions of the wider lessons that can be learnt for charities, for them as regulator, and for those making public policy decisions that involve charities in this way.