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How charities can improve their impact on the environment and be energy efficient.
Regulations prescribing the information to be included in charities’ annual returns from 1 January 2025 onwards.
This guide gives some examples of types of personal benefit.
How charity trustees can protect their assets and resources by choosing the right type of insurance.
How trustees, staff and volunteers can protect their charity from abuse by those encouraging extremism, terrorism or illegal activity.
What to do if your charity does not raise enough money, raises more than you need, or circumstances change (sometimes called a ‘failed appeal’).
Get help from the ‘Revitalising Trusts’ programme to either close or revitalise your charity.
Regulations prescribing the information to be included in charities’ annual returns from 1 January 2023 onwards.
Guidance on audits and independent examinations under the Companies Act and Charities Act.
This guidance explains what charity trustees need to know when thinking about taking or defending legal action generally.
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.
Information on the incorporation of charity trustees, what types of charity can apply and what happens after incorporation.
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.
How your charity can deliver public services on behalf of organisations like local authorities, the NHS or government departments.
Privacy notice about how we process your data when you apply to register a charity with the Charity Commission.
Guidance for trustees of permanently endowed charities considering adopting a total return approach to investing the charity's funds.
If your company isn’t a charity you need Charity Commission permission to use the words ‘charity’, ‘charity’s’, ‘charities’ or ‘charitable’ (known as sensitive words) in its name.
An overview of the legal and good practice issues that charities need to consider when delivering public services.
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