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How to transfer all your charity’s assets to another charity if it merges, changes structure or closes.
Find out how to identify and deal with conflicts of interest in your charity.
Charity trustees must 'have regard' to the Charity Commission's public benefit guidance when carrying out activities to which it's relevant.
Use our online service to keep your charity’s information and contact details up-to-date with the Charity Commission.
Find out how to pay less tax as a charity and when to set up a subsidiary trading company.
What a charity registration certificate is and how to get one.
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.
Find out what charity reserves are and how to develop and report on a charity's reserves policy.
How trustees can identify, assess and manage risks to their charity.
Find out about the rules that apply to the selling, leasing or otherwise disposing of charity land.
If you are a Community Interest Company (CIC) you can apply to convert directly to a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO).
Read guidance about raising funds if you are thinking of setting up a new charity.
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 how to keep your charity cyber secure, respond to cyber attacks, and report cyber crime.
Legal rules for trustees when deciding whether to accept, refuse or return a donation.
Find out about the role of a charity trustee, what they do and the benefits of getting involved.
Find out what your charity must send to the Commission and what services to use to help you get things right.
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.
Guidance for trustees about charities raising funds from the public.
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