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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.
How to raise funds effectively and legally, protecting the public’s trust and confidence in your charity’s work.
Find out when and how charities can engage in trading to raise funds and how to apply income on trading profits.
How to recruit and manage volunteers for your charity, including the vetting process, paying expenses, role descriptions and insurance.
What it means to be an 'exempt' charity and how exempt charities are regulated.
Choose a unique name that people will remember when they want to make a donation or to volunteer.
Find out how to change your charity’s financial year (or financial period).
Guidance for excepted churches, schools, Scout and Guide groups, and armed forces charities.
Charity Commission guidance on the legal requirement that charities provide public benefit.
Guidance about working in collaboration with other charities.
What charities need to consider when campaigning or engaging in political activity. Also includes guidance about Elections and Referendums.
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.
How to identify and manage risks, handle money safely and protect your staff and beneficiaries if your charity works overseas.
Support and guidance for charities undertaking lifesaving work under challenging circumstances in the region.
How to run your charity for the public benefit.
This guidance explains the rule in the Equality Act 2010 that allows a charity to discriminate by limiting the group of people it helps.
When charities can trade, tax rules and when to trade through a separate company.
How charities can hold, move and receive funds in the UK and internationally using formal banking systems and other methods.
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