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Follow employment laws and plan for risks when employing paid workers at your charity.
Find out how to keep your charity cyber secure, respond to cyber attacks, and report cyber crime.
How to ask the Official Custodian for Charities to hold the title to your charity's land on your behalf.
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 for charities governed by Royal Charter, or seeking Charter status.
How charities can hold, move and receive funds in the UK and internationally using formal banking systems and other methods.
Find out how charities can merge with other charities.
How to report on your charity's public benefit.
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 contact the Charity Commission as a whistleblower.
What trustees need to consider when acquiring land, whether for the charity’s own use or as an investment.
Understand how your legal duties are relevant to your charity’s use of social media.
Find out how charities can vest land in the name of the Official Custodian for Charities.
Regulations prescribing the information to be included in charities’ annual returns from 1 January 2025 onwards.
How charities can improve their impact on the environment and be energy efficient.
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’).
Find out what happens when the Charity Commission opens an inquiry into a charity.
Advice and information on key aspects of the UK’s counter-terrorism legislation and how it may affect charities and their work.
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