Tom Murdoch

Recent charity work includes:

• establishing a new charitable purpose to cover Public Interest Journalism; registering the Public Interest New Foundation; and contributing to Dame Francis Cairncross’ submissions to the Lords Communications Committee;
• advising the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust on planned spend-out and closure;
• first registration of new charitable purposes Wikimedia UK (the organisation underlying Wikipedia) and local Healthwatch (local authority public health responsibilities);
• assisting with the transfer of the National Citizen Service to a new Royal Charter body;
• establishing a new Royal Parks charity to manage the capital’s royal park spaces;
• assisting DEFRA with the establishment of the Canal and Riverside Trust, the successor organisation in England and Wales to the British Waterways Board;
• participating in diverse working parties on the development of charity law, including in relation to charitable journalism.

Interests include the 'common good', ‘public interest’ information and social-purpose enterprise and finance.