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How to run your charity for the public benefit.
How charities can hold, move and receive funds in the UK and internationally using formal banking systems and other methods.
Guidance for charities governed by Royal Charter, or seeking Charter status.
How to identify and manage risks, handle money safely and protect your staff and beneficiaries if your charity works overseas.
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).
Privacy notice about how we process your data when you send an annual return to the Charity Commission.
Privacy notice about how we process your data when you apply to register a charity with the Charity Commission.
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 about working in collaboration with other charities.
Support and guidance for charities undertaking lifesaving work under challenging circumstances in the region.
How to ask the Official Custodian for Charities to hold the title to your charity's land on your behalf.
How to report on your charity's public benefit.
This guidance explains what charity trustees need to know when thinking about taking or defending legal action generally.
Understand how your legal duties are relevant to your charity’s use of social media.
Privacy notice about how we process your data when you update your charity details within our online service.
How charity trustees can protect their assets and resources by choosing the right type of insurance.
What to do if your charity does not raise enough money, raises more than you need, or circumstances change (sometimes called a ‘failed appeal’).
How the Revitalising Trusts Programme can help your inactive or ineffective charity.
About the Charity Commission's public benefit guidance.
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