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Legal rules for trustees when deciding whether to accept, refuse or return a donation.
A charity's objects are a statement of its purposes - they must be exclusively charitable.
How to request an account, and access to different services or additional charities.
How to hold charity trustee and member meetings, including AGMs, so you can make decisions legally and your charity can run effectively.
Principles that charity trustees should follow to make sound decisions and fulfil their legal responsibilities.
Find out how to pay less tax as a charity and when to set up a subsidiary trading company.
We register and regulate charities in England and Wales, to ensure that the public can support charities with confidence.
Guidance on what purposes can be charitable.
Templates to help eligible non-company charities prepare their trustees' annual report and receipts and payments accounts.
Find out what being a charity trustee involves and how to employ, manage and keep people at your charity safe from harm.
What trustees need to do when preparing trustees’ annual reports, accounts and annual returns for accounting periods beginning on or after 1 November 2016.
Troubleshooting tips for our most frequently asked questions about using My Charity Commission Account.
Find out if a charity can pay trustees and what expenses trustees are entitled to.
Our personal information charter explains how we process personal data.
This guidance explains how we handle complaints from customers about our conduct or standards of service.
Charity Commission case reports, decisions made, inquiry reports, regulatory alerts and statements on live cases.
Remove your charity from the charities register after you've closed (or 'dissolved') it.
Find out what sort of wrongdoing you can report to the Charity Commission, and how to report it.
Refresh your knowledge with the Charity Commission's 5-minute guides.
Find out what your charity must send to the Commission and what services to use to help you get things right.
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