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Find out what trustees need to do before deciding whether to make a grant to an organisation that isn’t a charity.
Choose a unique name that people will remember when they want to make a donation or to volunteer.
How to request an account, and access to different services or additional charities.
This guidance for charities explains the automatic disqualification rules.
Charity Commission guidance on the legal requirement that charities provide public benefit.
When charities can trade, tax rules and when to trade through a separate company.
Use this checklist to review your charity's effectiveness at AGMs, trustee meetings, awayday discussions or planning meetings.
How to recruit and manage volunteers for your charity, including the vetting process, paying expenses, role descriptions and insurance.
Find out how to keep your charity cyber secure, respond to cyber attacks, and report cyber crime.
As a new charity trustee, this guide will help you in your role. It can also be used by existing trustees to refresh knowledge and skills.
Follow employment laws and plan for risks when employing paid workers at your charity.
Find out how to change your charity’s financial year (or financial period).
How to link charities to make accounting and reporting easier.
How to run your charity for the public benefit.
What charities need to consider when campaigning or engaging in political activity. Also includes guidance about Elections and Referendums.
Guidance for charities governed by Royal Charter, or seeking Charter status.
Charity Commission guidance about a phased timetable allowing charitable companies to convert to charitable incorporated organisations (CIOs).
Guidance for excepted churches, schools, Scout and Guide groups, and armed forces charities.
Guidance for auditors and independent examiners about the statutory duty to report any matters of significance to charity regulators in England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Find out how charities can merge with other charities.
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