About our services
All services and online forms for charity trustees and their representatives.
Read the guidance on each page before you start your task.
Request something from the Charity Commission
- get a charity registration certificate
- authorise a charity adviser to submit accounts
- transfer charity land or property to the Official Custodian
- enquiry form
Report something to the Charity Commission
- prepare a charity annual return
- report a change to your charity’s details
- report a serious incident in your charity on behalf of the trustees
- change your charity’s financial year
- report a change to your charity’s governing document
Get consent from the Charity Commission
- pay charity trustees or people connected to them
- sell or lease property to someone connected to your charity
- apply for a waiver from automatic disqualification
- spend permanent endowment
- make a moral (ex gratia) payment
- sell, lease, buy, mortgage or transfer charity land and property
- get consent to make a change to your charity’s governing document
Closing or merging a charity
- close a charity
- transfer charity assets
- change your charity structure
- merge or link charities
- get help for your inactive or ineffective charity
- apply to be added to the register of mergers
Convert to a CIO
Log in to the Charity Commission online service
This is a new service - if your charity has not used it since 12 November 2018 check what you need to do the first time you use it.
You can use this service to:
- submit your annual return
- report a change to your details
- amend your governing document
- change your financial year
- change your name or working name
You’ll need your:
- charity registration number
- charity’s password
Log in to your charity’s account
Before you start, read the guidance on: