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Charity Commission guidance on the legal requirement that charities provide public benefit.
Find out how to plan, run and keep a record of charity meetings.
What charities need to consider when campaigning or engaging in political activity. Also includes guidance about Elections and Referendums.
Guidance for excepted churches, schools, Scout and Guide groups, and armed forces charities.
Find out when and how charities can engage in trading to raise funds and how to apply income on trading profits.
Find out how charities can merge with other charities.
Find out what trustees need to do before deciding whether to make a grant to an organisation that isn’t a charity.
Find out how to change your charity’s financial year (or financial period).
As a new charity trustee, this guide will help you in your role. It can also be used by existing trustees to refresh knowledge and skills.
How to recruit and manage volunteers for your charity, including the vetting process, paying expenses, role descriptions and insurance.
This guidance for charities explains the automatic disqualification rules.
How to link charities to make accounting and reporting easier.
How to follow the law if you sell alcohol at a charity event, including when you need to pay tax.
How to run your charity for the public benefit.
Follow employment laws and plan for risks when employing paid workers at your charity.
Find out how to keep your charity cyber secure, respond to cyber attacks, and report cyber crime.
Use this checklist to review your charity's effectiveness at AGMs, trustee meetings, awayday discussions or planning meetings.
This guidance explains the rule in the Equality Act 2010 that allows a charity to discriminate by limiting the group of people it helps.
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 charities can hold, move and receive funds in the UK and internationally using formal banking systems and other methods.
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