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How charity trustees can protect their assets and resources by choosing the right type of insurance.
Advice and information on key aspects of the UK’s counter-terrorism legislation and how it may affect charities and their work.
Privacy notice about how we process your data when you apply to register a charity with the Charity Commission.
Find out what happens when the Charity Commission opens an inquiry into a charity.
Key issues and questions for charities to consider based on insights from our casework into campaigning and political activity during previous election periods.
Find out how charities can vest land in the name of the Official Custodian for Charities.
How charities can improve their impact on the environment and be energy efficient.
Guidance for charity trustees on when to report incidents involving the charity's partners as a serious incident.
How trustees, staff and volunteers can protect their charity from abuse by those encouraging extremism, terrorism or illegal activity.
Information on the rules that charities must follow, and how parliamentary candidates can engage with them during an election campaign.
Charitable status and tax issues connected with affordable home ownership.
Guidance for councillors and council officers of a local authority which is a trustee of a charity.
Find out how charity service users can help to develop the charity's services by being trustees.
Understand the rules on political activity and campaigning and how they are regulated.
An overview of the legal and good practice issues that charities need to consider when delivering public services.
Privacy notice about how we process your data when you contact the Charity Commission as a whistleblower.
This guide gives some examples of types of personal benefit.
Support and guidance for charities undertaking lifesaving work under challenging circumstances in the region.
How your charity can deliver public services on behalf of organisations like local authorities, the NHS or government departments.
Charity Commission guidance for charities established with a religious purpose.
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