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Guidance for charities governed by Royal Charter, or seeking Charter status.
Guidance about working in collaboration with other charities.
How to report on your charity's public benefit.
Guidance for excepted churches, schools, Scout and Guide groups, and armed forces charities.
How to link charities to make accounting and reporting easier.
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.
Understand how your legal duties are relevant to your charity’s use of social media.
What trustees need to consider when acquiring land, whether for the charity’s own use or as an investment.
Privacy notice about how we process your data when you update your charity details within our online service.
How charities can improve their impact on the environment and be energy efficient.
What to do if your charity does not raise enough money, raises more than you need, or circumstances change (sometimes called a ‘failed appeal’).
Understand what information you will need to prepare for the Annual Return 2023 and 2024, and why new questions have been included.
Privacy notice about how we process your data when you apply to register a charity with the Charity Commission.
Regulations prescribing the information to be included in charities’ annual returns from 1 January 2023 onwards.
Get help from the ‘Revitalising Trusts’ programme to either close or revitalise your charity.
How to legally raise money for your charity through legacies and wills.
How a church hall may be used for other charitable purposes if it is no longer needed exclusively for church purposes.
Analysis of the law relating to the principles of public benefit.
Find out how charities can vest land in the name of the Official Custodian for Charities.
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