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How to use internal financial controls to manage your charity’s financial activity and protect it from fraud and loss.
This guide outlines what the law in England and Wales says a charity is.
Comprehensive information for those people who want to form a community interest company (CIC), other stakeholders and those giving professional advice about CICs.
Guidance to assist the towns that wish to bid for the title of UK Town of Culture 2028.
Find out what procedures you need to follow to resign as a charity trustee or remove a trustee from the board.
Describes how the General Register Office can help you research your family tree and family history.
Find out about the rules you must follow to govern your charity.
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.
Find out about your responsibilities to keep everyone who comes into contact with your charity safe from harm: this includes volunteers, staff and beneficiaries.
How to decide what your charity’s purposes are and write them in the ‘objects’ clause of your governing document.
How to change your charity structure, for example from unincorporated to a CIO or charitable company.
Information on whether you need approval to put on certain types of regulated entertainment.
Help completing the passport application form from outside the UK.
Everything you need to know about how to become a sponsor including things to consider and thank you payments.
Information about the Better Futures Fund.
This guidance is for anyone applying for a British passport who was born in the UK to parent(s) from the EEA.
Understand the rules and risks when using charity funds to pay a trustee or a person or organisation connected to a trustee.
How charities and CASCs can make written, verbal and online declarations and what information to include.
How to apply to the Court of Protection to challenge an order restricting someone's freedom or get a deprivation of liberty authorised.
Find out what sort of wrongdoing you can report to the Charity Commission, and how to report it.
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