Modifies a noun

• giving: Around 14 per cent of charitable giving by individuals in the UK is to overseas aid agencies.

• trust: Only charitable trusts can be set up to last forever.

• status: Could a company with charitable status become a CIC?

• donation: Patterns of giving Amount donated The size of charitable donations in the year prior to the survey ranged from £ 2 to £ 70,000.

• purpose: Charity Trustees Is the property used wholly or mainly for charitable purposes?

• foundation: Niall is chairman of the King's Fund, a large independent charitable foundation working for better health.

Modifying Another Word

• exclusively: The objects of a charity must be capable of being exclusively charitable.

• legally: The purpose for which you are applying must be legally charitable and your constitution must allow you to carry out the work you propose.

• very: He was very Charitable, few went empty handed from \ him. / M r.

• not: It is not charitable to provide the services of a bar or social club.

• only: Only charitable trusts can be set up to last forever.

• also: It is also charitable to advance the physical education of young people not undergoing formal education.

Infinitive complement

• provide: It is not charitable to provide the services of a bar or social club.

• set: It is now accepted that it is charitable to set up unemployed people in trade or business.

Used with adjective complement

• regard: What sort of sports clubs could not be regarded as charitable?

• make: By establishing exemptions and tax deductibility, government policies made charitable giving attractive to donors.

• promote: CHARITY: To promote charitable giving a percentage of the allowance can be allocated to charity.

Preposition: in

• law: Sometimes we find that your objects and ( proposed ) activities are not charitable in law.

Preposition: for

• benefit: However the publication of reliable reports of decisions of the courts is charitable for the benefit of the public.