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How to use internal financial controls to manage your charity’s financial activity and protect it from fraud and loss.
How to change your charity structure, for example from unincorporated to a CIO or charitable company.
How trustees set up their Charity Commission Account.
Information about the Better Futures Fund.
Charity trustees must 'have regard' to the Charity Commission's public benefit guidance when carrying out activities to which it's relevant.
How to register your charity once it has been set up, what you need before you start your application and what happens after you apply.
Information about the approved organisations that can help you find a guest or a sponsor.
A charity's objects are a statement of its purposes - they must be exclusively charitable.
What trustees need to do when preparing trustees’ annual reports, accounts and annual returns for accounting periods starting on or after 1 November 2016 and before 1 January 2026.
How to transfer all your charity’s assets to another charity if it merges, changes structure or closes.
How trustees can identify, assess and manage risks to their charity.
Find out the legal and regulatory requirements relating to conflicts of interest and how trustees can identify and manage them.
This guidance explains what liability orders are in child maintenance cases and how to pay them.
What a charity registration certificate is and how to get one.
This factsheet explains how child maintenance payments are affected when a child stays overnight with the parent who pays child maintenance.
Read guidance about raising funds if you are thinking of setting up a new charity.
How a person can be disqualified as a charity trustee, and key checks to make of registers of removed trustees.
Information about how to become a Homes for Ukraine sponsor, including checks the council will make, and eligibility criteria.
Report presenting the concepts and methodology underpinning the indices and the indicators that make up the indices.
Trustees must carry out due diligence checks on donors, beneficiaries and local partners and can also monitor end use of funds.
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