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  • Guidance for excepted churches, schools, Scout and Guide groups, and armed forces charities.

  • Information about fraud and cyber crime, how to spot it and what you can do to protect against it.

  • This page provides more information about the Know Your Neighbourhood Fund.

  • This guidance aims to help organisations and groups understand how to safely and effectively involve volunteers.

  • Regulations prescribing the information to be included in charities’ annual returns from 1 January 2023 onwards.

  • £76 million Community Organisations Cost of Living Fund being delivered.

  • Protect your charity against financial difficulties and know what to do if the worst happens.

  • How charities can improve their impact on the environment and be energy efficient.

  • Get help from the ‘Revitalising Trusts’ programme to either close or revitalise your charity.

  • Details the eligibility criteria for the medal, allocations across the UK and Crown Dependencies, and guidance on the nomination process for England.

  • On 9 March 2024, the Government announced the introduction of The Elizabeth Emblem. This commemorative emblem is awarded as a mark of recognition to the next of kin of those who lost their lives in the course of undertaking …

  • This plan explains how the Department for Culture, Media and Sport will implement the Charities Act 2022.

  • How a church hall may be used for other charitable purposes if it is no longer needed exclusively for church purposes.

  • There are currently 38 national exemption order holders relating to house-to-house collections.

  • Find out what a volunteer bat roost visitor (VBRV) does and how to get trained and licenced to carry out bat roost visits.

  • Million Hours Fund application guidance.

  • UK citizens must have The King's permission to accept and wear a foreign award. Permission will only be given if the award meets these UK rules.

  • You can get a veterans badge if you were a munitions worker during World War 2.

  • Privacy notice about how we process your data when you send an annual return to the Charity Commission.

  • DCMS invites applications from grant makers to administer up to £1.7m funding on volunteering projects in 2021/22 and welcomes additional match funding to 2023.