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How charities can hold, move and receive funds in the UK and internationally using formal banking systems and other methods.
This guidance explains the rule in the Equality Act 2010 that allows a charity to discriminate by limiting the group of people it helps.
What charity trustees must do if they want to make an ex gratia payment from charity funds.
How to report on your charity's public benefit.
Understand how your legal duties are relevant to your charity’s use of social media.
Approved governing documents produced by various national charities and umbrella bodies for use by organisations associated with them.
How a church hall may be used for other charitable purposes if it is no longer needed exclusively for church purposes.
Privacy notice about how we process your data when you update your charity details within our online service.
Charity Commission guidance about a phased timetable allowing charitable companies to convert to charitable incorporated organisations (CIOs).
Guidance for charity trustees on when to report incidents involving the charity's partners as a serious incident.
How to ask the Official Custodian for Charities to hold the title to your charity's land on your behalf.
Find out how charities can vest land in the name of the Official Custodian for Charities.
About the Charity Commission's public benefit guidance.
How to legally raise money for your charity through legacies and wills.
What trustees need to consider when acquiring land, whether for the charity’s own use or as an investment.
Find out what happens when the Charity Commission opens an inquiry into a charity.
How charity trustees can protect their assets and resources by choosing the right type of insurance.
Privacy notice about how we process your data when you send an annual return to the Charity Commission.
Analysis of the law relating to the principles of public benefit.
What to do if your charity does not raise enough money, raises more than you need, or circumstances change (sometimes called a ‘failed appeal’).
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