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How to request an account, and access to different services or additional charities.
How to follow the law if you sell alcohol at a charity event, including when you need to pay tax.
Find out how to plan, run and keep a record of charity meetings.
Find out how to keep your charity cyber secure, respond to cyber attacks, and report cyber crime.
What it means to be an 'exempt' charity and how exempt charities are regulated.
Find out when and how charities can engage in trading to raise funds and how to apply income on trading profits.
How to run your charity for the public benefit.
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).
Choose a unique name that people will remember when they want to make a donation or to volunteer.
Follow employment laws and plan for risks when employing paid workers at your charity.
How charities can hold, move and receive funds in the UK and internationally using formal banking systems and other methods.
Guidance about working in collaboration with other charities.
Find out how charities can merge with other charities.
This guidance explains the rule in the Equality Act 2010 that allows a charity to discriminate by limiting the group of people it helps.
How to identify and manage risks, handle money safely and protect your staff and beneficiaries if your charity works overseas.
Understand the rules on political activity and campaigning and how they are regulated.
Find out how to change your charity’s financial year (or financial period).
How to link charities to make accounting and reporting easier.
How to report on your charity's public benefit.
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.
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