I lived in a cathedral city, which also had in it one of the oldest public schools in the country, which of course also has charitable status.
A friend worked at the school as a teacher in the art department. He was in a relationship with a woman who was an accountant working in the school
Everybody understood that the cathedral was a major landlord/ landowner, having been there for centuries, not only within the city, but literally worldwide.
In fact the school, also having been there for centuries also, was even more wealthy than the church itself.
I’ve always been an advocate of the removal of charitable status from super wealthy organisations like this, especially some of the schools. Now…seeing the way they infect the whole hierarchy of public bodies the law, government, media and various other rotting parts of the body politic. If you haven’t looked at the percentages of the ‘tribe’ that hold power in the country, you will be very surprised.
Sod just the charitable status…Abolish the lot them completely.