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Find out what trustees need to do before deciding whether to make a grant to an organisation that isn’t a charity.
Follow employment laws and plan for risks when employing paid workers at your charity.
Information about running, planning and recording meetings and what types of meetings a charity can have.
Charity Commission guidance on the legal requirement that charities provide public benefit.
Settle disputes between your charity's trustees, staff or members to avoid putting your charity’s funds and users at risk.
How to run your charity for the public benefit.
Advice for charities that are facing financial difficulties and how charities can reduce the risk of insolvency.
Charity Commission guidance on running a village hall.
What it means to be an 'exempt' charity and how exempt charities are regulated.
Find out how charities can merge with other charities.
Guidance about working in collaboration with other charities.
Find out how to change your charity’s financial year (or financial period).
Understand what information you will need to prepare for the 2023 Annual Return, and why new questions have been included.
How to set a reserves policy for your charity and report on its reserves in your trustees’ annual report.
When charities can trade, tax rules and when to trade through a separate company.
Understand how your legal duties are relevant to your charity’s use of social media.
What charity trustees must do if they want to make an ex gratia payment from charity funds.
Guidance about cost of living related financial difficulties in charities.
Guidance for auditors and independent examiners about the statutory duty to report any matters of significance to charity regulators in England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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