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Find out how trustees can make the right decisions about investing charity funds.
How to apply to remove a trustee’s legal name from public display on the charity register in England and Wales (known as a dispensation).
What charities and their trustees need to consider when fundraising from the public.
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.
Troubleshooting tips for our most frequently asked questions about using My Charity Commission Account.
The rules for charities that want to support, or oppose, a change in government policy or the law.
How a person can be disqualified as a charity trustee, and key checks to make of registers of removed trustees.
Guidance for excepted churches, schools, Scout and Guide groups, and armed forces charities.
Advice on actions trustees can take to improve their charity’s finances, protect against financial difficulties and understand what to do if their charity is insolvent or at risk of insolvency.
Find out about the rules that apply to the selling, leasing or otherwise disposing of charity land.
Find out about the rules you must follow for spending, borrowing from, or transferring your charity’s permanent endowment.
Understand what information you will need to prepare for the Annual Return 2023 and 2024, and why new questions have been included.
Privacy notice about how we process your personal data when you set up and use ‘My Charity Commission Account’.
Find out how to plan, run and keep a record of charity meetings.
Find out what charity reserves are and how to develop and report on a charity's reserves policy.
Find out what trustees need to do before deciding whether to make a grant to an organisation that isn’t a charity.
Read about the changes that have been introduced by the Charities Act 2022.
Guidance about trustee expenses, including what costs can be paid as expenses and what should be in a trustee expenses policy.
How to identify partners to work with, draw up agreements and fundraise for other charities.
Find out when and how charities can engage in trading to raise funds and how to apply income on trading profits.
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