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Find out about the rules you must follow to govern your charity.
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.
Sets out the main requirements for incorporating and naming a company in the UK, including business names and charitable incorporated organisations (CIOs).
Understand the rules and risks when using charity funds to pay a trustee or a person or organisation connected to a trustee.
Find out what sort of wrongdoing you can report to the Charity Commission, and how to report it.
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.
Regulations setting out what should be included in a governing document for a CIO.
Find out how to make sure that your charity’s money is safe, properly used and accounted for.
A charity's objects are a statement of its purposes - they must be exclusively charitable.
Before you apply to be come a Community Interest company use this checklist to make sure you have all the correct documents
How charities and CASCs can make written, verbal and online declarations and what information to include.
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.
Find out how to pay less tax as a charity and when to set up a subsidiary trading company.
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.
Legal rules for trustees when deciding whether to accept, refuse or return a donation.
Use our online service to keep your charity’s information and contact details up-to-date with the Charity Commission.
Use this guidance to help you change a charity's details using form ChV1.
Find out how to identify and deal with conflicts of interest in your charity.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
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