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Results of pre-inquiry and class inquiry work into charities that failed to submit financial information to us for 2 or more years (in the last 5 years).
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 change your charity structure, for example from unincorporated to a CIO or charitable company.
How to link charities to make accounting and reporting easier.
Find out what your charity must send to the Commission and what services to use to help you get things right.
Advice about applications to be sent to HM Land Registry to register transactions involving charities (practice guide 14).
Find out what it means to be a charity and what to do if setting up a charity is the right option for you.
A list of charity tribunal cases involving appeals against Charity Commission decisions, being dealt with by the General Regulatory Chamber.
Charity Commission case reports, decisions made, inquiry reports, regulatory alerts and statements on live cases.
How to set out your charity's purposes and rules in its governing document, how to start using it and how to change it.
Transactions involving charitable incorporated organisations, including their dissolution (practice guide 14A).
Charity Commission guidance about a phased timetable allowing charitable companies to convert to charitable incorporated organisations (CIOs).
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