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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.
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.
The Community Ownership Fund bidding prospectus provides detailed guidance on the purpose of the fund, eligibility criteria, funding and support assessment criteria and the decision-making process. Please see below for an up…
A searchable index of businesses who have signed the Armed Forces Covenant.
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.
Charity trustees must 'have regard' to the Charity Commission's public benefit guidance when carrying out activities to which it's relevant.
You can start to raise funds for your charity once you have your governing document and trustees in place.
Understand the rules for making payments to trustees, including trustee expenses
A guide to the flags that can be flown without permission from your local planning authority.
A charity's objects are a statement of its purposes - they must be exclusively charitable.
How to use the General Register Office to find birth certificates when researching your family tree and family history.
This guidance is for local partnerships building and delivering the local early help system of support for families.
Find out if a charity can pay trustees and what expenses trustees are entitled to.
Principles that charity trustees should follow to make sound decisions and fulfil their legal responsibilities.
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.
This guidance sets out the objectives of Supporting Families in 2022 to 2025 and is for local authorities and their partners delivering Supporting Families.
How to transfer all your charity’s assets to another charity if it merges, changes structure or closes.
This guidance explains how to pay child maintenance using Collect & Pay arrangements and what happens if you do not make a payment.
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