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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.
Regulations giving authority for total return investment by charities.
How to ask the Official Custodian for Charities to hold the title to your charity's land on your behalf.
How your charity can deliver public services on behalf of organisations like local authorities, the NHS or government departments.
Regulations prescribing the information to be included in charities’ annual returns from 1 January 2025 onwards.
How commercial companies engage in charitable activities.
How charity trustees can protect their assets and resources by choosing the right type of insurance.
This guide gives some examples of types of personal benefit.
How trustees, staff and volunteers can protect their charity from abuse by those encouraging extremism, terrorism or illegal activity.
Find out what happens when the Charity Commission opens an inquiry into a charity.
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 apply to register a charity with the Charity Commission.
Guidance for councillors and council officers of a local authority which is a trustee of a charity.
Guidance for trustees of permanently endowed charities considering adopting a total return approach to investing the charity's funds.
Find out how charity service users can help to develop the charity's services by being trustees.
Privacy notice about how we process your data when you apply for a charity trustee dispensation.
How the Charity Commission can use official warnings to deal with wrongdoing in charities.
Guidance for charity trustees on when to report incidents involving the charity's partners as a serious incident.
Charitable status and tax issues connected with affordable home ownership.
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