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Check who is eligible to be a trustee and what skills they need to have
The Charities SORP provides guidance to preparers of charity accounts. The SORP provides recommendations and requirements setting out how to prepare ‘true and fair’ accounts in accordance with UK accounting standards. The SO…
Find out what procedures you need to follow to resign as a charity trustee or remove a trustee from the board.
How to set up and use your new 'Charity Commission Account' and manage other users’ access and permissions.
Bespoke model Articles of Association 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 …
Find out how to make changes to your charity's governing document.
Before you start to set up a charity make sure that you know it is the best option for what you want to do.
This guide outlines what the law in England and Wales says a charity is.
How to use internal financial controls to manage your charity’s financial activity and protect it from fraud and loss.
Understand the rules and risks when using charity funds to pay a trustee or a person or organisation connected to a trustee.
How trustees set up their Charity Commission Account.
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.
Guidance about making trustee decisions, including the 7 decision-making principles.
How to decide what your charity’s purposes are and write them in the ‘objects’ clause of your governing document.
Find out about the rules you must follow to govern your charity.
Sets out the main requirements for incorporating a company in the UK.
Directions and guidance the examiner must follow and the role and responsibility of independent examiners when examining the accounts of a charity.
Find out how to make sure that your charity’s money is safe, properly used and accounted for.
Comprehensive information for those people who want to form a community interest company (CIC), other stakeholders and those giving professional advice about CICs.
Use our online service to keep your charity’s information and contact details up-to-date with the Charity Commission.
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