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Legal rules for trustees when deciding whether to accept, refuse or return a donation.
How to raise funds effectively and legally, protecting the public’s trust and confidence in your charity’s work.
Find out when you can zero rate VAT for advertisements and goods used for the collection of donations.
Find how to claim top-up payments on small donations up to £30 if you’re a charity or community amateur sports club (CASC).
Find out about the types of fundraising donations that charities and community amateur sports clubs (CASCs) can and cannot claim Gift Aid on.
Find out what a charity is, how VAT affects charities, how to treat a charity's income for VAT and what VAT reliefs a charity can get on what it buys.
Today (Monday 4 March 2024), the Charity Commission has published new guidance to help charities when deciding whether to accept, refuse or return a donation.
What Gift Aid is, who can claim, what donations are eligible for Gift Aid, Gift Aid declarations for your charity or community amateur sports club (CASC), how to claim
Intermediaries that collect donations for charities can get authority from a donor to Gift Aid all their donations in a year.
How charities and CASCs can make written, verbal and online declarations and what information to include.
How to identify partners to work with, draw up agreements and fundraise for other charities.
Find out how to submit a claim for tax repayments using online forms and databases.
You can start to raise funds for your charity once you have your governing document and trustees in place.
If you want to collect money or sell items on the street for charity, you might need a street collection licence, depending on your local council
To gain an understanding of what encourages and deters donors from claiming Gift Aid, and to reveal causes of incorrect and ineligible claims.
The NHSBT and UKHSA surveillance programme is a series of national schemes that monitors infection in blood, tissue and organ donors, and transfusion recipients.
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