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Find out how charities can merge with other charities.
Charity Commission guidance about a phased timetable allowing charitable companies to convert to charitable incorporated organisations (CIOs).
How to ask the Official Custodian for Charities to hold the title to your charity's land on your behalf.
Privacy notice about how we process your data when you update your charity details within our online service.
This guidance explains what charity trustees need to know when thinking about taking or defending legal action generally.
Find out how charities can vest land in the name of the Official Custodian for Charities.
How to legally raise money for your charity through legacies and wills.
Guidance for charity trustees on when to report incidents involving the charity's partners as a serious incident.
When charities can trade, tax rules and when to trade through a separate company.
How to identify and manage risks, handle money safely and protect your staff and beneficiaries if your charity works overseas.
How the Revitalising Trusts Programme can help your inactive or ineffective charity.
How to report on your charity's public benefit.
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 trustees need to know and do when making a moral, or ‘ex gratia’ payment.
Understand how your legal duties are relevant to your charity’s use of social media.
Follow employment laws and plan for risks when employing paid workers at your charity.
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 send an annual return to the Charity Commission.
Analysis of the law relating to the principles of public benefit.
Privacy notice about how we process your data when you contact the Charity Commission as a whistleblower.
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