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Find out what being a charity trustee involves, if you can claim expenses and where to get help and advice.
Use our online service to keep your charity’s information and contact details up-to-date with the Charity Commission.
Find out how to make changes to your charity's governing document.
Comprehensive information for those people who want to form a community interest company (CIC), other stakeholders and those giving professional advice about CICs.
How to get the right people with the right skills on your charity's trustee board.
Find out what procedures you need to follow to resign as a charity trustee or remove a trustee from the board.
The recruitment, appointment and induction process for new charity trustees and how to set a framework for recruitment.
How to close a charity, and what to tell the Charity Commission when you have closed the charity.
This guide outlines what the law in England and Wales says a charity is.
How to manage your charity’s financial activity and use internal financial controls to reduce the risk of loss.
Find out about the rules you must follow to govern your charity.
Bespoke model constitutions for use when forming or converting to a CIC, with memorandum of association and articles of association templates. When completing section A8 of form IN01, please only tick "option 3-bespoke …
Understand the rules on political activity and campaigning and how they are regulated now a general election has been called.
How to register your charity once it has been set up, what you need before you start your application and what happens after you apply.
Directions and guidance the examiner must follow and the role and responsibility of independent examiners when examining the accounts of a charity.
How to decide what your charity’s purposes are and write them in the ‘objects’ clause of your governing document.
How to change your charity structure, for example from unincorporated to a CIO or charitable company.
Sets out the main requirements for incorporating a company in the UK.
Find out how to make sure that your charity’s money is safe, properly used and accounted for.
Samples showing the layout and format of trustees’ annual reports and accounts under SORP 2005. For samples under SORP FRSSE and SORP FRS 102, see detail below.
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