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Find out what procedures you need to follow to resign as a charity trustee or remove a trustee from the board.
How to change your charity structure, for example from unincorporated to a CIO or charitable company.
This guide outlines what the law in England and Wales says a charity is.
Guidance about making trustee decisions, including the 7 decision-making principles.
How to write a nomination if you want to put someone forward for a national honour.
Information about the Young Futures Hubs and Transformation Programme.
How trustees set up their Charity Commission Account.
Check who is eligible to be a trustee and what skills they need to have
Describes how the General Register Office can help you research your family tree and family history.
How to decide what your charity’s purposes are and write them in the ‘objects’ clause of your governing document.
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.
Directions and guidance the examiner must follow and the role and responsibility of independent examiners when examining the accounts of a charity.
This page explains upcoming changes to how charities report and prepare their accounts.
Find out about your responsibilities to keep everyone who comes into contact with your charity safe from harm: this includes volunteers, staff and beneficiaries.
An overview of the government’s new non-statutory definition of anti‑Muslim hostility, what it seeks to address and its intended application.
How to use internal financial controls to manage your charity’s financial activity and protect it from fraud and loss.
Find out what sort of wrongdoing you can report to the Charity Commission, and how to report it.
Understand the rules and risks when using charity funds to pay a trustee or a person or organisation connected to a trustee.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission's updated Code of Practice for services, public functions and associations.
How to set up and use your new 'Charity Commission Account' and manage other users’ access and permissions.
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