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How to set up a charity: find trustees, choose a name and structure, create a governing document, meet the public benefit requirement, register your charity.
How to identify partners to work with, draw up agreements and fundraise for other charities.
How to link charities to make accounting and reporting easier.
How to decide what your charity’s purposes are and write them in the ‘objects’ clause of your governing document.
Information on the rules that charities must follow, and how parliamentary candidates can engage with them during an election campaign.
Charity Commission Chair gives Dame Shirley lecture at University of Kent
Genesis Philanthropy Group is to be wound up, with its remaining funds transferred to other charities.
Charities can register online with HMRC and claim tax relief or get tax back on Gift Aid donations and bank interest, charitable purposes, registration
Helen Stephenson's reflects on the role of finance professionals and ‘finance trustees’ in the charity sector.
The Charity Commission has concluded that a former trustee of the Charr Yarr Welfare Foundation Limited was involved in extremist activity
Read about the changes that have been introduced by the Charities Act 2022.
The Charity Commission has opened an inquiry into We Care Foundation.
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