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This guidance explains what charity trustees need to know when thinking about taking or defending legal action generally.
Get help from the ‘Revitalising Trusts’ programme to either close or revitalise your charity.
Guidance for councillors and council officers of a local authority which is a trustee of a charity.
How charities can improve their impact on the environment and be energy efficient.
This guide gives some examples of types of personal benefit.
How your charity can deliver public services on behalf of organisations like local authorities, the NHS or government departments.
Advice and information on key aspects of the UK’s counter-terrorism legislation and how it may affect charities and their work.
How commercial companies engage in charitable activities.
Charitable status and tax issues connected with affordable home ownership.
Privacy notice about how we process your data when you apply to register a charity with the Charity Commission.
How the Charity Commission can use official warnings to deal with wrongdoing in charities.
Regulations giving authority for total return investment by charities.
How trustees, staff and volunteers can protect their charity from abuse by those encouraging extremism, terrorism or illegal activity.
Find out what happens when the Charity Commission opens an inquiry into a charity.
An overview of the legal and good practice issues that charities need to consider when delivering public services.
Privacy notice about how we process your data when you contact the Charity Commission as a whistleblower.
Find out how charity service users can help to develop the charity's services by being trustees.
Guidance for trustees of permanently endowed charities considering adopting a total return approach to investing the charity's funds.
Guidance for charity trustees on when to report incidents involving the charity's partners as a serious incident.
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