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Charity Commission Chair gives Dame Shirley lecture at University of Kent
How to decide what your charity’s purposes are and write them in the ‘objects’ clause of your governing document.
Find out what trustees need to do before deciding whether to make a grant to an organisation that isn’t a charity.
How to identify partners to work with, draw up agreements and fundraise for other charities.
How to manage and review your charity's connection to a non-charity.
This report looks at how foundations can do the most good through total impact – looking at and planning the impact of all their activities.
A charity's objects are a statement of its purposes - they must be exclusively charitable.
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