not for profit

The NHS itself will be exempt from those increased costs but, as things stand, not-for-profit organisations including some care charities providing public services will have to pay.

The Ask for Angela initiative, a not-for-profit project in place at thousands of venues nationwide, aims to provide a discreet lifeline for people who believe they are in danger.

“These incidents are catnip for those who seek to undermine confidence in the election result,” said Luis Lozada, chief executive of Democracy Works, a not-for-profit group that distributes information about voting.

Housing associations are mostly not-for-profit organisations that buy up affordable properties and rent them as social homes to low income tenants at discounted rates, receiving a government subsidy to do so.

He said the party would become a not-for-profit organisation governed by the party’s new rulebook, with no shareholders.