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What it means to be an 'exempt' charity and how exempt charities are regulated.
Information on charity banking and the support available to charities trying to access adequate banking services.
Find out how to plan, run and keep a record of charity meetings.
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.
Find out when and how charities can engage in trading to raise funds and how to apply income on trading profits.
Guidance for excepted churches, schools, Scout and Guide groups, and armed forces charities.
Find out how to change your charity’s financial year (or financial period).
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.
This guidance for charities explains the automatic disqualification rules.
How to recruit and manage volunteers for your charity, including the vetting process, paying expenses, role descriptions and insurance.
How to follow the law if you sell alcohol at a charity event, including when you need to pay tax.
How to link charities to make accounting and reporting easier.
How to run your charity for the public benefit.
Use this checklist to review your charity's effectiveness at AGMs, trustee meetings, awayday discussions or planning meetings.
Follow employment laws and plan for risks when employing paid workers at your charity.
Choose a unique name that people will remember when they want to make a donation or to volunteer.
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.
Charity Commission guidance about a phased timetable allowing charitable companies to convert to charitable incorporated organisations (CIOs).
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