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What you need to know about crossing the UK border and visiting the UK as a citizen from the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein.

• Updated: 9 February 2026

You can get a free TV licence if you're 75 or over and you get Pension Credit, or a discount if you're blind or in residential care - who qualifies, how to apply

Find volunteering opportunities, and volunteer rights, pay, expenses, age limits, criminal record checks.

• Find volunteer opportunities

  You can find volunteering opportunities on the: National Association for…

• Volunteers' rights

  You do not have a contract of employment as a volunteer, so you do not…

• When you can volunteer

  Age limits There’s no upper age limit on volunteering. Some organisations’…

• Pay and expenses

  You are not paid for your time as a volunteer, but you may get money to…

You usually need a licence from PPL PRS to play live or recorded music in public - includes playing background music at your business, and staging live music or theatre productions.

Find your nearest library to access services such as book loans, CD rentals and internet access

• Updated: 21 April 2023

Information on whether you need approval to put on certain types of regulated entertainment.

• Updated: 26 March 2015

Get the right permissions to show a film or TV show in public.

This note sets out how to take account of social value in the award of central government contracts by using the Social Value Model.

• Updated: 24 September 2020

First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

The Security of Network & Information Systems Regulations (NIS Regulations) provide legal measures to boost the level of security (both cyber & physical resilience) of network and information systems for the provisio…

• Updated: 4 January 2023