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Information about ensuring blood and blood component safety.
We register and regulate charities in England and Wales, to ensure that the public can support charities with confidence. The Charity Commission is a non-ministerial department.
Research from the Behavioural Insights Team, or Nudge Unit, shows how charity donations can be increased by using behavioural sciences.
How to transfer all your charity’s assets to another charity if it merges, changes structure or closes.
Find out how to access additional support services including those from the existing Infected Blood support schemes, charities and NHS.
To start a charity you need trustees, to choose a business structure, decide suitable charitable purposes and you may have to register with the Charity Commission
How to apply for a discretionary grant where the dissolved company can be restored. (Company has been dissolved for less than six years)
This is a guide to using the Taking Part survey online data analysis tools.
Privacy notice for the Children and Young People's Resettlement Fund.
This guidance explains what the Community Infrastructure Levy is and how it operates.
Submit a claim on 'other income' using Charities Online.
Nominating someone for an honour, setting up a charity, community participation
How to manage and review your charity's connection to a non-charity.
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.
A scheme for the gifting of cultural objects in exchange for tax reductions
Guidance on debt relief orders for debt advisers. To search, press ‘control’ and ‘f’ on your keyboard at the same time. A search box will appear.
Guidance to help you complete your charity's annual return, accounting and reporting requirements, and tax and Gift Aid advice.
Templates to help eligible non-company charities prepare their trustees' annual report and receipts and payments accounts.
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