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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 identify and manage risks, handle money safely and protect your staff and beneficiaries if your charity works overseas.
Guidance for charities governed by Royal Charter, or seeking Charter status.
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 report on your charity's public benefit.
How to link charities to make accounting and reporting easier.
Privacy notice about how we process your data when you book onto or attend Charity Commission outreach events.
Charity Commission guidance about a phased timetable allowing charitable companies to convert to charitable incorporated organisations (CIOs).
How to legally raise money for your charity through legacies and wills.
Privacy notice about how we process your data when you update your charity details within our online service.
What trustees need to know and do when making a moral, or ‘ex gratia’ payment.
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.
Find out how charities can vest land in the name of the Official Custodian for Charities.
Advice and information on key aspects of the UK’s counter-terrorism legislation and how it may affect charities and their work.
How charity trustees can protect their assets and resources by choosing the right type of insurance.
Support and guidance for charities undertaking lifesaving work under challenging circumstances in the region.
How the Revitalising Trusts Programme can help your inactive or ineffective charity.
This guidance explains what charity trustees need to know when thinking about taking or defending legal action generally.
How a church hall may be used for other charitable purposes if it is no longer needed exclusively for church purposes.
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