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Find out how to identify and deal with conflicts of interest in your charity.
Decide whether to set up a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO), a charitable company or an unincorporated association or trust.
Guidance for individuals about automatic disqualification rules, what to do if you become disqualified and how to apply for a waiver.
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.
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.
Find out how to pay less tax as a charity and when to set up a subsidiary trading company.
Find out how trustees can make the right decisions about investing charity funds.
Trustees must carry out due diligence checks on donors, beneficiaries and local partners and can also monitor end use of funds.
Find out about the rules that apply to the selling, leasing or otherwise disposing of charity land.
How trustees can identify, assess and manage risks to their charity.
How to set out your charity's purposes and rules in its governing document, how to start using it and how to change it.
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 to manage and review your charity's connection to a non-charity.
Read guidance about raising funds if you are thinking of setting up a new charity.
Regulations setting out what should be included in a governing document for a CIO.
Guidance on what purposes can be charitable.
Information on charity banking and the support available to charities trying to access adequate banking services.
Charity Commission guidance on running a village hall.
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