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Find out about making valid trustee decisions that are in your charity’s best interests.
Advice on actions trustees can take to improve their charity’s finances, protect against financial difficulties and understand what to do if their charity is insolvent or at risk of insolvency.
What charities and their trustees need to consider when fundraising from the public.
This guidance for charities explains the automatic disqualification rules.
Find out what charity reserves are and how to develop and report on a charity's reserves policy.
How a person can be disqualified as a charity trustee, and key checks to make of registers of removed trustees.
Find out about the rules that apply to the selling, leasing or otherwise disposing of charity land.
The rules for charities that want to support, or oppose, a change in government policy or the law.
Information on charity banking and the support available to charities trying to access adequate banking services.
How to apply to remove a trustee’s legal name from public display on the charity register in England and Wales (known as a dispensation).
Find out about the rules you must follow for spending, borrowing from, or transferring your charity’s permanent endowment.
Guidance explains what independent examination involves, how to select an independent examiner for your charity and what you need to do to prepare for an independent examination.
Find out what it means to be a charity and what to do if setting up a charity is the right option for you.
How to follow the law if you sell alcohol at a charity event, including when you need to pay tax.
What it means to be an 'exempt' charity and how exempt charities are regulated.
Settle disputes between your charity's trustees, staff or members to avoid putting your charity’s funds and users at risk.
Find out how to plan, run and keep a record of charity meetings.
Find out what trustees need to do before deciding whether to make a grant to an organisation that isn’t a charity.
How to request an account, and access to different services or additional charities.
Find out when and how charities can engage in trading to raise funds and how to apply income on trading profits.
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