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The home of The Charity Commission on GOV.UK. We register and regulate charities in England and Wales, to ensure that the public can support charities with confidence.
Search the charity register to find details of registered charities in England and Wales including contact information, activities, latest financial reports and current trustees.
Access to our online services has changed. Set up or sign into your new My Charity Commission Account.
Charities registered in England or Wales must send an annual return to the Charity Commission or report their income and spending every year.
How to set up and use your new 'Charity Commission Account' to access online services on behalf of your charity.
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
Guidance to help you set up and run your charity.
How to set up and use your new 'Charity Commission Account' and manage other users’ access and permissions.
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.
What's required of a charity trustee, including your responsibilities to your charity.
Decide whether to set up a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO), a charitable company or an unincorporated association or trust.
What Gift Aid is, who can claim, what donations are eligible for Gift Aid, Gift Aid declarations for your charity or community amateur sports club (CASC), how to claim
Penny Appeal has been subject to extensive regulatory scrutiny resulting in an Official Warning.
Models, templates and guidance for constitutions, articles of association and trust deeds for a new charity or charitable trust.
What to do to protect people who come into contact with your charity through its work from abuse or mistreatment.
Guidance for charity trustees about serious incidents: how to spot them and how to report.
What to put in your trustees' annual report, depending on your charity's income and the value of its assets.
How to set out your charity's purposes and rules in its governing document, how to start using it and how to change it.
The Charities SORP provides guidance to preparers of charity accounts. The SORP provides recommendations and requirements setting out how to prepare ‘true and fair’ accounts in accordance with UK accounting standards. The SO…
Before you start to set up a charity make sure that you know it is the best option for what you want to do.
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