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About the Charity Commission's public benefit guidance.
Get help from the ‘Revitalising Trusts’ programme to either close or revitalise your charity.
How to legally raise money for your charity through legacies and wills.
This guide gives some examples of types of personal benefit.
Advice and information on key aspects of the UK’s counter-terrorism legislation and how it may affect charities and their work.
Guidance for councils and other local authorities that are trustees of charities.
How a church hall may be used for other charitable purposes if it is no longer needed exclusively for church purposes.
This guidance explains what charity trustees need to know when thinking about taking or defending legal action generally.
Analysis of the law relating to the principles of public benefit.
How your charity can deliver public services on behalf of organisations like local authorities, the NHS or government departments.
How trustees, staff and volunteers can protect their charity from abuse by those encouraging extremism, terrorism or illegal activity.
Privacy notice about how we process your data when you apply to register a charity with the Charity Commission.
Privacy notice about how we process your data when you send an annual return to the Charity Commission.
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.
Privacy notice about how we process your data when you contact the Charity Commission as a whistleblower.
Find out how charities can vest land in the name of the Official Custodian for Charities.
Regulations amending the Charity Commission (Annual Return) Regulations 2022.
Charity Commission guidance for charities established with a religious purpose.
An overview of the legal and good practice issues that charities need to consider when delivering public services.
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