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As a new charity trustee, this guide will help you in your role. It can also be used by existing trustees to refresh knowledge and skills.
How to run your charity for the public benefit.
Follow employment laws and plan for risks when employing paid workers at your charity.
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.
Privacy notice about how we process your data when you apply to register a charity with the Charity Commission.
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.
Guidance about working in collaboration with other charities.
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.
Support and guidance for charities undertaking lifesaving work under challenging circumstances in the region.
Understand how your legal duties are relevant to your charity’s use of social media.
How to ask the Official Custodian for Charities to hold the title to your charity's land on your behalf.
This guidance explains what charity trustees need to know when thinking about taking or defending legal action generally.
Privacy notice about how we process your data when you contact the Charity Commission as a whistleblower.
Privacy notice about how we process your data when you update your charity details within our online service.
How the Revitalising Trusts Programme can help your inactive or ineffective charity.
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’).
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