Guidance and regulation

Access to our online services has changed. Set up or sign into your new My Charity Commission Account.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 14 September 2023

How to set up and use your new 'Charity Commission Account' to access online services on behalf of your charity.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 16 November 2023

Charities registered in England or Wales must send an annual return to the Charity Commission or report their income and spending every year.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 5 October 2023

Browse a list of available government grants and see if you're eligible to apply for them.

• From: Cabinet Office
• Updated: 28 June 2023

Guidance to help you set up and run your charity.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 27 September 2023

How to set up and use your new 'Charity Commission Account' and manage other users’ access and permissions.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 16 November 2023

Decide whether to set up a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO), a charitable company or an unincorporated association or trust.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 4 November 2014

Submit individual Gift Aid donations, aggregated donations and claims for sponsored events using Charities Online.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 4 July 2019

Models, templates and guidance for constitutions, articles of association and trust deeds for a new charity or charitable trust.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 11 October 2022

Find out about the rules you must follow to govern your charity.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 23 March 2022

What's required of a charity trustee, including your responsibilities to your charity.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 3 May 2018

The processes you need to follow, and the documents you need to submit, when you are a community interest company or you wish to form (or convert to) a community interest company.

• From: Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies
• Updated: 23 February 2024

What to do to protect people who come into contact with your charity through its work from abuse or mistreatment.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 1 June 2022

How to set out your charity's purposes and rules in its governing document, how to start using it and how to change it.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 11 December 2014

Sets out the main requirements for incorporating a company in the UK.

• From: Companies House
• Updated: 4 March 2024

Comprehensive information for those people who want to form a community interest company (CIC), other stakeholders and those giving professional advice about CICs.

• From: Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies
• Updated: 9 February 2024

Find out about the types of fundraising donations that charities and community amateur sports clubs (CASCs) can and cannot claim Gift Aid on.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 22 October 2019

Find out how to submit a claim for tax repayments using online forms and databases.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 7 October 2022

Find out what being a charity trustee involves, if you can claim expenses and where to get help and advice.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 3 May 2018

Find out what procedures you need to follow to resign as a charity trustee or remove a trustee from the board.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 23 May 2013