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Understand what information you will need to prepare for the Annual Return 2025, and why new questions have been included.
Information on whether you need approval to put on certain types of regulated entertainment.
How trustees set up their Charity Commission Account.
Information about the Common Ground Award and how voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector organisations can apply for grant funding.
Information about the approved organisations that can help you find a guest or a sponsor.
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.
A list of the supporting documents you need to provide when applying for a passport from outside the UK.
OPSS is leading a fresh campaign to support fireworks safety, with content for use by local authorities, community groups and the public.
How to apply to the Court of Protection to challenge an order restricting someone's freedom or get a deprivation of liberty authorised.
This guidance is for anyone applying for a British passport who was born in the UK to parent(s) from the EEA.
Samples showing the layout and format of trustees’ annual reports and accounts under SORP 2005. For samples under SORP FRSSE and SORP FRS 102, see detail below.
Report outlining how rural deprivation has been explicitly considered in the development of the indices of deprivation (IoD25).
A charity's objects are a statement of its purposes - they must be exclusively charitable.
Directions and guidance the examiner must follow and the role and responsibility of independent examiners when examining the accounts of a charity.
Regulations setting out what should be included in a governing document for a CIO.
How to transfer all your charity’s assets to another charity if it merges, changes structure or closes.
Read about the changes that have been introduced by the Charities Act 2022.
Guidance to assist the places (including larger towns, cities, regions and groups of places) that wish to bid for the title of UK City of Culture 2029.
Find out the legal and regulatory requirements relating to conflicts of interest and how trustees can identify and manage them.
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