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How to manage and review your charity's connection to a non-charity.
Find out about the rules you must follow for spending, borrowing from, or transferring your charity’s permanent endowment.
Information on charity banking and the support available to charities trying to access adequate banking services.
Guidance about trustee expenses, including what costs can be paid as expenses and what should be in a trustee expenses policy.
Find out what it means to be a charity and what to do if setting up a charity is the right option for you.
Regulations setting out what should be included in a governing document for a CIO.
Find out how trustees can make the right decisions about investing charity funds.
Find out about making valid trustee decisions that are in your charity’s best interests.
How a person can be disqualified as a charity trustee, and key checks to make of registers of removed trustees.
Charity Commission guidance on running a village hall.
Guidance for people who are thinking about fundraising for charity, including for an emergency situation, from the Charity Commission of England and Wales and the Fundraising Regulator.
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).
Guidance explains what independent examination involves, how to select an independent examiner for your charity and what you need to do to prepare for an independent examination.
Find out how to plan, run and keep a record of charity meetings.
Privacy notice about how we process your personal data when you set up and use ‘My Charity Commission Account’.
Troubleshooting tips for our most frequently asked questions about using My Charity Commission Account.
Guidance for auditors and independent examiners about the statutory duty to report any matters of significance to charity regulators in England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
How to identify partners to work with, draw up agreements and fundraise for other charities.
How to follow the law if you sell alcohol at a charity event, including when you need to pay tax.
Settle disputes between your charity's trustees, staff or members to avoid putting your charity’s funds and users at risk.
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