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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.
Everything you need to know about how to become a sponsor including things to consider and thank you payments.
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 change your charity structure, for example from unincorporated to a CIO or charitable company.
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.
Charity trustees must 'have regard' to the Charity Commission's public benefit guidance when carrying out activities to which it's relevant.
What a charity registration certificate is and how to get one.
A charity's objects are a statement of its purposes - they must be exclusively charitable.
How to transfer all your charity’s assets to another charity if it merges, changes structure or closes.
Read about the sorts of concerns and complaints about charities to raise with the charity regulator. This guidance is now the Commission’s Regulatory and Risk Framework.
A guide to the flags that can be flown without permission from your local planning authority.
What trustees need to do when preparing trustees’ annual reports, accounts and annual returns for accounting periods beginning on or after 1 November 2016.
This guidance explains what liability orders are in child maintenance cases and how to pay them.
Find out the legal and regulatory requirements relating to conflicts of interest and how trustees can identify and manage them.
How to use the General Register Office to find birth certificates when researching your family tree and family history.
Trustees must carry out due diligence checks on donors, beneficiaries and local partners and can also monitor end use of funds.
Information and application forms for organisations seeking to deliver community-based and/or consumer-focused product safety awareness and education projects.
Information about the Dormant Assets Scheme, including its impact to date and expansion
Guidance on what purposes can be charitable.
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