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  • Community interest companies: model constitutions

    Bespoke model constitutions for use when forming or converting to a CIC, with memorandum of association and articles of association templates. When completing section A8 of form IN01, please only tick "option 3-bespoke …

    • From: Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies
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  • My Charity Commission Account - guidance for trustees

    How trustees set up their Charity Commission Account.

    • From: The Charity Commission
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  • Charity purposes and rules

    Find out about the rules you must follow to govern your charity.

    • From: The Charity Commission
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  • Prepare a charity trustees' annual report

    What to put in your trustees' annual report, depending on your charity's income and the value of its assets.

    • From: The Charity Commission
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  • How to write charitable purposes

    How to decide what your charity’s purposes are and write them in the ‘objects’ clause of your governing document.

    • From: The Charity Commission
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  • Digital identity certification for right to work, right to rent and criminal record checks

    Guidance on how digital identity providers can become certified to complete digital identity checks for the 'Right to Work', 'Right to Rent' and DBS schemes.

    • From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and 1 others
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  • Participation Survey

    This page introduces the Participation Survey and links to all relevant documents.

    • From: Department for Culture, Media and Sport and 1 others
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  • How to register a charity (CC21b)

    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.

    • From: The Charity Commission
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  • Citizenship fee waiver for individuals under 18: caseworker guidance

    Immigration staff guidance on processing applications for a citizenship fee waiver for individuals under the age of 18.

    • From: UK Visas and Immigration
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  • Trustee board: people and skills

    How to get the right people with the right skills on your charity's trustee board.

    • From: The Charity Commission
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  • A guide to the Online Safety Bill

    The Online Safety Bill is a new set of laws to protect children and adults online. It will make social media companies more responsible for their users’ safety on their platforms.

    • From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and 1 others
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  • Internal financial controls for charities (CC8)

    How to manage your charity’s financial activity and use internal financial controls to reduce the risk of loss.

    • From: The Charity Commission
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  • Change your charity structure

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

    • From: The Charity Commission
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  • Community Ownership Fund Round 4: how to express your interest in applying

    This fund helps community groups buy or renovate assets that would otherwise be lost to the community.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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  • Becoming a sponsor: Homes for Ukraine

    Everything you need to know about how to become a sponsor including things to consider and thank you payments.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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  • Honours: how to write a nomination

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

    • From: Cabinet Office
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  • Call for input: Incorrect guidance on single-sex spaces and gender self-identification

    The Minister for Women and Equalities is seeking examples of policy or guidance in which public bodies – or organisations that advise public and private organisations – wrongly suggest that people have a legal right to acces…

    • From: Equality Hub
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  • Payments to charity trustees: what the rules are

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

    • From: The Charity Commission
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  • Public benefit: rules for charities

    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
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  • Deprivation of Liberty orders

    How to apply to the Court of Protection to challenge an order restricting someone's freedom or get a deprivation of liberty authorised.

    • From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service
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