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Photograph: Charity Commission Chair, The Rt Hon Baroness Stowell of Beeston MBE

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Baroness Tina Stowell speech at annual public meeting

Charity Commission Chair, Baroness Tina Stowell speaks in Bristol and the Commission’s annual public meeting

3 steps to your annual return: 1. Check you can log in. 2. Update charity details. 3. Start annual return.

News story

If your charity last did an annual return before 12 November 2018

The Charity Commission changed its systems on 12 November 2018. If you have not submitted an annual return online since then, you’ll need to do things differently.

A tablet computer displaying the front cover of our paper 'The value of charity'.

Policy paper

The value of the charity sector

A paper explaining the steps that are needed to measure the value of the charitable sector.

Photograph: Charity Commission CEO, Helen Stephenson CBE.

Blog post

Charities and political campaigning: a reflection on charities’ responsibilities

A reminder to charities of their responsibilities and of the guidance we publish to help decision making around political activity.

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International Charity Fraud Awareness Week 2019

Get involved between 21 and 25 October to help your organisation and the charity sector become more resilient to fraud.

Charity Commission reports and alerts

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Charity Commission alerts, decisions, reports and statements

Charity Commission case reports, decisions made, inquiry reports, regulatory alerts and statements on live cases.

Latest from The Charity Commission

  1. New Charity Inquiry: CWM Harry Land Trust Limited
    • Press release
  2. Register of merged charities
    • Transparency
  3. Baroness Tina Stowell speech at annual public meeting
    • Speech

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What The Charity Commission does

We register and regulate charities in England and Wales, to ensure that the public can support charities with confidence.

Charity Commission is a non-ministerial department.

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Services

  1. Search the charity register
  2. Set up a charity
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Guidance and regulation

  1. Online services for charities
    • Detailed guide
  2. Prepare a charity annual return
    • Detailed guide
See all guidance and regulation

News and communications

  1. New Charity Inquiry: CWM Harry Land Trust Limited
    • Press release
  2. Baroness Tina Stowell speech at annual public meeting
    • Speech
See all news and communications

Research and statistics

  1. Charity register statistics
    • Official statistics
  2. Trust in Charities 2018
    • Research
See all research and statistics

Policy papers and consultations

  1. The value of the charity sector
    • Policy paper
  2. MOU: Charity Commission and the Information Commissioner
    • Policy paper
See all policy papers and consultations

Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. Register of merged charities
    • Transparency
  2. Whistleblowing disclosures made to the Charity Commission for England and Wales 2018 to 2019
    • Transparency
See all transparency and freedom of information releases

Our management

Helen Stephenson CBE
Helen Stephenson CBE
Chief Executive Officer, Charity Commission, Board member
Baroness Stowell of Beeston MBE

The Rt Hon

Baroness Stowell of Beeston MBE
Chair, Charity Commission
Aarti Thakor
Director of Legal Services
Sarah Atkinson
Director of Policy, Planning and Communications
Helen Earner
Director of Operations
David Jones
Director of Corporate Services
Michelle Russell
Director of Investigations, Monitoring and Enforcement
Mike Ashley
Non-Executive Member of the Charity Commission Board
Laurie Benson
Board member
Tony Cohen
Board member
Kenneth Dibble
Board member
Nina Hingorani-Crain
Board member
Paul Martin CBE
Board member
Catherine Quinn
Board member
Ian Karet
Board member

Contact Charity Commission

Contact Centre

Open Monday to Friday, 9am to 4pm

0300 066 9197

Find out how to get a password or log in to Charity Commission online services
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/online-services-for-charities

Complain about a charity

Contact Form: Complain about a charity

What to do if a charity won't deal with your complaint, or if you suspect illegal activity like terrorism or abuse.

Enquiry form

Contact Form: Enquiry form

We can only respond to an enquiry when the Charity Commission has to be involved.

Report a serious incident in your charity

Charity trustees must report serious incidents to us, and explain how incidents are being dealt with.

Find out how to report serious incidents and what to report.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/how-to-report-a-serious-incident-in-your-charity

Whistleblowing

Find out what sort of wrongdoing you can report to the Charity Commission, and how to report it.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/report-serious-wrongdoing-at-a-charity-as-a-worker-or-volunteer

Freedom of Information (FOI) requests

Email

FOIrequests@charitycommission.gov.uk

Read our privacy notice about how we process your data when you submit a Freedom of Information (FOI) request
www.gov.uk/government/publications/charity-commission-freedom-of-informationenvironmental-information-regulations-request-privacy-notice

Make an FOI request

  1. Read about the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and how to make a request.
  2. Check our previous releases to see if we’ve already answered your question.

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