Guidance and regulation

Charity trustees must 'have regard' to the Charity Commission's public benefit guidance when carrying out activities to which it's relevant.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 14 February 2014

How to change your charity structure, for example from unincorporated to a CIO or charitable company.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 7 March 2024

How to write a nomination if you want to put someone forward for a national honour.

• From: Cabinet Office
• Updated: 20 July 2020

Understand the rules for making payments to trustees, including trustee expenses

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 31 October 2022

Information about how to become a Homes for Ukraine sponsor, including checks the council will make, and eligibility criteria.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 19 February 2024

You can start to raise funds for your charity once you have your governing document and trustees in place.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 20 July 2016

A charity's objects are a statement of its purposes - they must be exclusively charitable.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 10 May 2013

How to transfer all your charity’s assets to another charity if it merges, changes structure or closes.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 7 March 2024

Information about being selected to take part in the Community Life Survey.

• From: Department for Culture, Media and Sport and 1 others
• Updated: 1 June 2022

Hints and tips to help you avoid the most common errors on a security questionnaire.

• From: Ministry of Defence
• Updated: 23 March 2018

This guidance explains what liability orders are in child maintenance cases and how to pay them.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 1 October 2013

A checklist of things to consider before you can offer support to someone from Ukraine.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 16 January 2023

A searchable index of businesses who have signed the Armed Forces Covenant.

• From: Ministry of Defence
• Updated: 19 April 2024

This guidance sets out the objectives of Supporting Families in 2022 to 2025 and is for local authorities and their partners delivering Supporting Families.

• From: Department for Education and 1 others
• Updated: 2 April 2022

How to use the General Register Office to find birth certificates when researching your family tree and family history.

• From: HM Passport Office
• Updated: 6 July 2023

This guidance is for local partnerships building and delivering the local early help system of support for families.

• From: Department for Education and 1 others
• Updated: 2 April 2022

Find out if a charity can pay trustees and what expenses trustees are entitled to.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 7 March 2024

What trustees need to do when preparing trustees’ annual reports, accounts and annual returns for accounting periods beginning on or after 1 November 2016.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 14 June 2023

Samples showing the layout and format of trustees’ annual reports and accounts under SORP 2005. For samples under SORP FRSSE and SORP FRS 102, see detail below.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 23 May 2013

Guidance on what purposes can be charitable.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 16 September 2013