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Welcome to the new Consul General

The British Charitable Society is excited by the announcement by the Foreign and Colonial Office (FCO) that Dr. Phil Budden will be assuming the role of HM Consul General to New England from August 2007. Dr Budden has served at the British Embassy in Washington as the First Secretary for Regulatory Affairs as well as leading the Science and Technology team headquartered out of Washington DC.

Welcome to Boston and New England Dr. Budden!

New Website

Following a year of planning, testing and implementation, the British Charitable Society relaunched their web site to further promote the aims of the Society online. The new site includes expanded sections about the Society's mission and events and an new area for online donations and payments. It is hoped that in the future the website will be able to more closely interact in promoting and reporting about events as well as raising the profile of the British Charitable Society as a whole.

The site has been designed by for the British Charitable Society as a pro-bono project by Alumedia who focus on working with clients with a US-UK market relationship. We welcome your feedback, comments and suggestions on the site, please email these to the webmaster.

British Charitable Society Ball 2008

The British Charitable Society is pleased to announce the 2008 Ball will take place on 7th November 2008 at the Harvard Club in Boston.

The Ball has become a signature charity event in New England and an important fund raiser for the British Charitable Society. The Ball, which includes auctions for items ranging from sports tickets to weekend getaways, incorporates cocktails, a black-tie dinner and dancing in the spacious and historic facilities of the Harvard Club on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. The 2007 event, raised substantial amounts for the British Charitable Society, so please, mark your diary with the date in '08 and come out for Boston's premiere black-tie charity event!

Britons Abroad - A New Study

Immigration has become a hot topic in the United Kingdom. Extensive data is available for people arriving to make new lives in the UK, but what about emigration? Remarkably very little is known about the British diaspora. A new study commissioned last year by the Foreign and Colonial Office (FCO) saw the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) issue a compelling report about the British abroad. BCS member Thomas Keown takes a closer look at a fascinating subject.

From The Charter September 2007
Book Review: The Iraq Commission Report

On July the 14th this year, The Foreign Policy Centre, a London think tank released the comprehensive report of its Iraq Commission. In the September 2007 edition of The Charter, Editor Michael Dawson offers a candid review.

Ex-Pat Tax Alert

We have been alerted to a change in the UK tax code which, effective in April of, may 008, may reduce the time that a UK-born ex-pat may spend in the UK without being subject to taxes. The current time is 91 days a year, not counting the days of arrival and departure. Effective in April those days may be counted in the total. To see the full Telegraph article, go to theirwebsite:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml =/global/2007/11/01/non-resident-in-UK.xml

The Prime Minister in Boston
The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, was in the United States for a week in the middle of April, making the usual rounds of the White House, presidential candidates, etc. On his last day, April 18, he gave a speech at the Kennedy Library in South Boston, outlining his foreign policy. While some have criticised his speech on the grounds of its being mostly composed of abstract proposals, as opposed to concrete ones, he had clearly put a lot of thought into what he was going to say. We believe you might like to read this speech; its full text can be found by clicking here.