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The Margaret Thatcher Centre is a project conceived and supported by two charities: the Cherish Freedom Trust in the United Kingdom and the Cherish Freedom Foundation in the United States.

The Cherish Freedom Trust applied for charitable status in England & Wales in April 2013 and was awarded charitable status under charity number 1157697 in July 2014.

The charity’s approved charitable objects are:

(a) to advance education by promoting public knowledge and understanding of the history of the 20th Century and more recent history, particularly in relation to the life and work of The Rt. Hon. The Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven LG, OM, FRS, and in support of that object but not otherwise:

(b) to collect, document, preserve and exhibit material evidence, historical objects and associated information and memorabilia and make it available to scholars and as appropriate to the public for the purposes of research, publication and discussion, and where appropriate for the purposes of viewing by the establishment and maintenance of a museum;

(c) to provide education and instruction and to carry out research and to publish the findings of such research;

(d) to organise and promote presentations, exhibitions and lectures;

(e) to print and publish books, pamphlets, periodicals or other literature or publications and to compile, write, edit and otherwise produce materials;

(f) to promote the public’s knowledge and understanding of the life and work of the said The Rt. Hon. The Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven LG, OM, FRS by such other means as the Trustees consider appropriate; and

(g) for the general purposes of such charitable bodies or for such other exclusively charitable purposes as the Trustees may from time to time decide.

Donations by UK taxpayers to the Margaret Thatcher Centre attract the benefits of Gift Aid.

The Cherish Freedom Foundation secured tax-exempt status in the United States in 2012 (backdated, in accordance with US tax law, to its application for tax-exempt status in 2011). The Cherish Freedom Foundation was incorporated in Virginia on 25 February 2010 and obtained IRS approval under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code on 25 February 2011.

The purposes for which the Cherish Freedom Foundation is exclusively organized and for which it operates, as a nonprofit, educational foundation, are to study, conduct research and analysis, and to inform and educate the public its leadership as to historical, legal, jurisprudential, economic, philosophical, political, social, and public policy matters, including, but not limited to:

(a) the sources and underpinnings of the political, economic, and religious liberties enjoyed by the peoples of nations constituting the Anglosphere;

(b) domestic and international threats to national sovereignty and freedom and ways to defend against those threats;

(c) the importance of the special relationship among nations in the Anglosphere in preserving and advancing freedom;

(d) strategies to expand freedom in countries where it does not exist; and

(e) methods to pass the torch of freedom to the next generation.

These purposes of the Foundation are accomplished as follows:

(a) by engaging in, encouraging, and facilitating study, research, analysis, writing, and publications with respect to history, political science, economics, philosophy, law, jurisprudence, theology, and other disciplines providing insight into the conditions necessary for freedom to exist, protecting liberty under a written or unwritten constitution, and expanding citizens’ rights, and by publishing and distributing the results thereof to the general public, including its civic and business leaders, its elected and appointed officials, the media, and other interested individuals and organizations, through

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various means of communications, including meetings and conferences, briefings, reports, studies, monographs, video presentations, the Internet, radio and other educational materials and media;

(b) by sponsoring and supporting public discussion and better understanding of issues or principles such as individual freedom, national sovereignty, protected rights, limited government powers, checks and balances, separation of powers, and other matters such as those set out above, through groups, forums, panels, lectures, symposiums, seminars, debates, and other similar events to which interested individuals and organizations and members of the public will be invited;

(c) by supporting and sponsoring libraries, museums, and centers and other repositories of historical documents and memorabilia of public interest, as well as monuments and other remembrances of historical events relating to the struggle for freedom, in the United States and elsewhere, to stimulate interest in and advancement of the Foundation’s purposes;

(d) by supporting, as well as engaging in, public interest litigation that indirectly, as well as directly, supports the purposes of the Foundation;

(e) by providing grants and awards and otherwise encouraging and assisting in the research, writing, and education of the public on issues of interest to the Foundation;

(f) by offering internships, fellowships, and conducting cultural exchanges between the United States and other countries; and

(g) by working with other organizations and individuals in furtherance of the above-stated purposes.

Donations by US taxpayers, foundations and corporations to the Cherish Freedom Foundation are 100% tax deductible.