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How a person can be disqualified as a charity trustee, and key checks to make of registers of removed trustees.
Find out about the rules you must follow for spending, borrowing from, or transferring your charity’s permanent endowment.
Read about the changes that have been introduced by the Charities Act 2022.
Find out about the rules that apply to the selling, leasing or otherwise disposing of charity land.
Find out what charity reserves are and how to develop and report on a charity's reserves policy.
Find out how trustees can make the right decisions about investing charity funds.
How to manage and review your charity's connection to a non-charity.
Advice on actions trustees can take to improve their charity’s finances, protect against financial difficulties and understand what to do if their charity is insolvent or at risk of insolvency.
Guidance about trustee expenses, including what costs can be paid as expenses and what should be in a trustee expenses policy.
How to follow the law if you sell alcohol at a charity event, including when you need to pay tax.
Information on charity banking and the support available to charities trying to access adequate banking services.
The rules for charities that want to support, or oppose, a change in government policy or the law.
What it means to be an 'exempt' charity and how exempt charities are regulated.
Privacy notice about how we process your personal data when you set up and use ‘My Charity Commission Account’.
How to identify partners to work with, draw up agreements and fundraise for other charities.
How to raise funds effectively and legally, protecting the public’s trust and confidence in your charity’s work.
Guidance explains what independent examination involves, how to select an independent examiner for your charity and what you need to do to prepare for an independent examination.
Find out when and how charities can engage in trading to raise funds and how to apply income on trading profits.
Find out what trustees need to do before deciding whether to make a grant to an organisation that isn’t a charity.
Find out how to plan, run and keep a record of charity meetings.
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