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Find out how to keep your charity cyber secure, respond to cyber attacks, and report cyber crime.
How to follow the law if you sell alcohol at a charity event, including when you need to pay tax.
Find out when and how charities can engage in trading to raise funds and how to apply income on trading profits.
What charities need to consider when campaigning or engaging in political activity. Also includes guidance about Elections and Referendums.
Settle disputes between your charity's trustees, staff or members to avoid putting your charity’s funds and users at risk.
What it means to be an 'exempt' charity and how exempt charities are regulated.
How to recruit and manage volunteers for your charity, including the vetting process, paying expenses, role descriptions and insurance.
Find out how to change your charity’s financial year (or financial period).
Charity Commission guidance on the legal requirement that charities provide public benefit.
Follow employment laws and plan for risks when employing paid workers at your charity.
Find out what trustees need to do before deciding whether to make a grant to an organisation that isn’t a charity.
Guidance for excepted churches, schools, Scout and Guide groups, and armed forces charities.
When charities can trade, tax rules and when to trade through a separate company.
Choose a unique name that people will remember when they want to make a donation or to volunteer.
What charity trustees must do if they want to make an ex gratia payment from charity funds.
How to identify and manage risks, handle money safely and protect your staff and beneficiaries if your charity works overseas.
Guidance for charities governed by Royal Charter, or seeking Charter status.
Guidance about working in collaboration with other charities.
How to link charities to make accounting and reporting easier.
How charities can hold, move and receive funds in the UK and internationally using formal banking systems and other methods.
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