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Regulations prescribing the information to be included in charities’ annual returns from 1 January 2023 onwards.
Regulations prescribing the information to be included in charities’ annual returns from 1 January 2025 onwards.
Privacy notice about how we process your data when you send an annual return to the Charity Commission.
Get help from the ‘Revitalising Trusts’ programme to either close or revitalise your charity.
Find out what happens when the Charity Commission opens an inquiry into a charity.
Guidance for trustees of permanently endowed charities considering adopting a total return approach to investing the charity's funds.
Regulations giving authority for total return investment by charities.
Find out how charity service users can help to develop the charity's services by being trustees.
How trustees, staff and volunteers can protect their charity from abuse by those encouraging extremism, terrorism or illegal activity.
How charity trustees can protect their assets and resources by choosing the right type of insurance.
Find out how charities can vest land in the name of the Official Custodian for Charities.
Privacy notice about how we process your data when you apply to register a charity with the Charity Commission.
How your charity can deliver public services on behalf of organisations like local authorities, the NHS or government departments.
How commercial companies engage in charitable activities.
Privacy notice about how we process your data when you contact the Charity Commission as a whistleblower.
Key issues and questions for charities to consider based on insights from our casework into campaigning and political activity during previous election periods.
Information on the rules that charities must follow, and how parliamentary candidates can engage with them during an election campaign.
Privacy policy about how we process your data when you submit a Freedom of Information (FOI) or Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) request.
How charity trustees can be liable for the actions of employees, volunteers and others who act for the charity.
Guidance for councillors and council officers of a local authority which is a trustee of a charity.
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