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How to get the right people with the right skills on your charity's trustee board.
How to use internal financial controls to manage your charity’s financial activity and protect it from fraud and loss.
What to put in your trustees' annual report, depending on your charity's income and the value of its assets.
Find out about the rules you must follow to govern your charity.
How to set up and use your new 'Charity Commission Account' and manage other users’ access and permissions.
How to decide what your charity’s purposes are and write them in the ‘objects’ clause of your governing document.
Guidance about making trustee decisions, including the 7 decision-making principles.
Guidance about trustee expenses, including what costs can be paid as expenses and what should be in a trustee expenses policy.
Directions and guidance the examiner must follow and the role and responsibility of independent examiners when examining the accounts of a charity.
Charity trustees must 'have regard' to the Charity Commission's public benefit guidance when carrying out activities to which it's relevant.
How to change your charity structure, for example from unincorporated to a CIO or charitable company.
Use our online service to keep your charity’s information and contact details up-to-date with the Charity Commission.
Find out about your responsibilities to keep everyone who comes into contact with your charity safe from harm: this includes volunteers, staff and beneficiaries.
How to register your charity once it has been set up, what you need before you start your application and what happens after you apply.
A charity's objects are a statement of its purposes - they must be exclusively charitable.
How trustees set up their Charity Commission Account.
Find out how to identify and deal with conflicts of interest in your charity.
Find out how to pay less tax as a charity and when to set up a subsidiary trading company.
How to transfer all your charity’s assets to another charity if it merges, changes structure or closes.
Find out what charity reserves are and how to develop and report on a charity's reserves policy.
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