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How to decide what your charity’s purposes are and write them in the ‘objects’ clause of your governing document.
Explains what research and development (R&D) means for tax purposes.
Find out about the rules you must follow to govern your charity.
Guidance on public benefit and charitable purposes for charities and organisations wishing to become charities.
Guidance on what purposes can be charitable.
Charity trustees must 'have regard' to the Charity Commission's public benefit guidance when carrying out activities to which it's relevant.
Guidance on infant and follow-on formula, the application form for infant and follow-on formula made from protein hydrolysates, and forms to notify the authority.
How a church hall may be used for other charitable purposes if it is no longer needed exclusively for church purposes.
Details of the exceptions to copyright that allow limited use of copyright works without the permission of the copyright owner.
Find out about being 'active', trading and non-trading, and being dormant if you’re a new or existing company or organisation.
An explanation of how UKHSA processes your personal data when you apply to access it for secondary purposes
Apply for a licence to excavate buried human remains from an archaeological site in England and Wales.
Find out how to value stocks and shares of someone who has died. How you value them depends on whether they are 'listed' or 'unlisted'.
How trustees, staff and volunteers can protect their charity from abuse by those encouraging extremism, terrorism or illegal activity.
How to market forest reproductive material (FRM) for forestry purposes, including regulations, registration, master certificates and licences.
A charity's objects are a statement of its purposes - they must be exclusively charitable.
How to create invoices for transactions in foreign currencies and convert them into pound sterling when you account for VAT.
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