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What trustees need to do when preparing trustees’ annual reports, accounts and annual returns for accounting periods starting on or after 1 November 2016 and before 1 January 2026.
How trustees can identify, assess and manage risks to their 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.
Legal rules for trustees when deciding whether to accept, refuse or return a donation.
Use our online service to keep your charity’s information and contact details up-to-date with the Charity Commission.
Find out how to identify and deal with conflicts of interest in your charity.
Find out the legal and regulatory requirements relating to conflicts of interest and how trustees can identify and manage them.
What a charity registration certificate is and how to get one.
Guidance for individuals about automatic disqualification rules, what to do if you become disqualified and how to apply for a waiver.
Read guidance about raising funds if you are thinking of setting up a new charity.
How a person can be disqualified as a charity trustee, and key checks to make of registers of removed trustees.
Find out what your charity must send to the Commission and what services to use to help you get things right.
Trustees must carry out due diligence checks on donors, beneficiaries and local partners and can also monitor end use of funds.
Guidance on what purposes can be charitable.
Find out what charity reserves are and how to develop and report on a charity's reserves policy.
Charity Commission guidance on running a village hall.
Read about the sorts of concerns and complaints about charities to raise with the charity regulator. This guidance is now the Commission’s Regulatory and Risk Framework.
Find out about making valid trustee decisions that are in your charity’s best interests.
Find out how trustees can make the right decisions about investing charity funds.
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