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How to run your charity for the public benefit.
Privacy notice about how we process your data when you send an annual return to the Charity Commission.
Approved governing documents produced by various national charities and umbrella bodies for use by organisations associated with them.
How to identify and manage risks, handle money safely and protect your staff and beneficiaries if your charity works overseas.
How to report on your charity's public benefit.
Guidance about working in collaboration with other charities.
Regulations prescribing the information to be included in charities’ annual returns from 1 January 2023 onwards.
Charity Commission guidance about a phased timetable allowing charitable companies to convert to charitable incorporated organisations (CIOs).
What to do if your charity does not raise enough money, raises more than you need, or circumstances change (sometimes called a ‘failed appeal’).
What charity trustees must do if they want to make an ex gratia payment from charity funds.
Privacy notice about how we process your data when you update your charity details within our online service.
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.
How to legally raise money for your charity through legacies and wills.
This guidance explains the rule in the Equality Act 2010 that allows a charity to discriminate by limiting the group of people it helps.
How to ask the Official Custodian for Charities to hold the title to your charity's land on your behalf.
About the Charity Commission's public benefit guidance.
Find out how charities can vest land in the name of the Official Custodian for Charities.
How a church hall may be used for other charitable purposes if it is no longer needed exclusively for church purposes.
What trustees need to consider when acquiring land, whether for the charity’s own use or as an investment.
How charity trustees can protect their assets and resources by choosing the right type of insurance.
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