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How to manage and review your charity's connection to a non-charity.
Find out the legal and regulatory requirements relating to conflicts of interest and how trustees can identify and manage them.
Access the register of merged charities and understand when you can, or must, register your merger to help you secure future gifts.
If you are a Community Interest Company (CIC) you can apply to convert directly to a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO).
Find out about the rules you must follow for spending, borrowing from, or transferring your charity’s permanent endowment.
Template to help non-company charities with incomes of £500,000 or less to prepare their trustees' annual report and accruals accounts in accordance with Charities SORP FRS 102
Find out about the rules that apply to the selling, leasing or otherwise disposing of charity land.
Information about our online services and the contact forms you need to complete tasks.
Find out what you need to do to set up and register or close a charity in England and Wales.
What charities and their trustees need to consider when fundraising from the public.
Accounting template (MS Excel) for completing a charitable company's accounts by charitable activity for accounting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2015.
Sets out our regulatory approach and how we assess risk when deciding how to deal with individual cases.
Monthly invoice information about spending over £25,000 for the financial year 2024 to 2025.
Accounting template (MS Excel) for completing a charity's accruals accounts by charitable activity for accounting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2015.
Statements about the opening of an inquiry or a regulatory case into a charity.
Find out when and how charities can engage in trading to raise funds and how to apply income on trading profits.
How to link charities to make accounting and reporting easier.
Reports of Charity Commission inquiries carried out under section 46 of the Charities Act 2011.
A collection of the Charity Commission's 'CC' detailed guidance publications, from CC3 to CC49.
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