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Find out how to identify and deal with conflicts of interest in your charity.
Legal rules for trustees when deciding whether to accept, refuse or return a donation.
How to transfer all your charity’s assets to another charity if it merges, changes structure or closes.
What trustees need to do when preparing trustees’ annual reports, accounts and annual returns for accounting periods beginning on or after 1 November 2016.
Guidance on what purposes can be charitable.
Guidance for individuals about automatic disqualification rules, what to do if you become disqualified and how to apply for a waiver.
What a charity registration certificate is and how to get one.
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.
If you are a Community Interest Company (CIC) you can apply to convert directly to a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO).
Find out the legal and regulatory requirements relating to conflicts of interest and how trustees can identify and manage them.
Find out what your charity must send to the Commission and what services to use to help you get things right.
You can start to raise funds for your charity once you have your governing document and trustees in place.
Charity Commission guidance on running a village hall.
How trustees can identify, assess and manage risks to their charity.
Find out about making valid trustee decisions that are in your charity’s best interests.
Troubleshooting tips for our most frequently asked questions about using My Charity Commission Account.
Trustees must carry out due diligence checks on donors, beneficiaries and local partners and can also monitor end use of funds.
Find out what it means to be a charity and what to do if setting up a charity is the right option for you.
Find out about the rules you must follow for spending, borrowing from, or transferring your charity’s permanent endowment.
How to apply to remove a trustee’s legal name from public display on the charity register in England and Wales (known as a dispensation).
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