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Find out about your responsibilities to keep everyone who comes into contact with your charity safe from harm: this includes volunteers, staff and beneficiaries.
Find out about the rules you must follow to govern your charity.
How to set up and use your new 'Charity Commission Account' and manage other users’ access and permissions.
Understand the rules and risks when using charity funds to pay a trustee or a person or organisation connected to a trustee.
How to decide what your charity’s purposes are and write them in the ‘objects’ clause of your governing document.
How trustees set up their Charity Commission Account.
Find out which Environment Agency locks and weirs you can fish at, the licences and permits you need and when you can fish.
Guidance for charity trustees explaining what conflicts of interest are, and how to deal with them.
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.
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.
What a charity registration certificate is and how to get one.
The UK government will ban social media for under 16s.
How charities and CASCs can make written, verbal and online declarations and what information to include.
Guidance to apply for a letter to confirm your nationality status.
Charity trustees must 'have regard' to the Charity Commission's public benefit guidance when carrying out activities to which it's relevant.
How to apply to the Court of Protection to challenge an order restricting someone's freedom or get a deprivation of liberty authorised.
How to transfer all your charity’s assets to another charity if it merges, changes structure or closes.
Directions and guidance the examiner must follow and the role and responsibility of independent examiners when examining the accounts of a charity.
Designated days when the Union Flag must be flown on UK government buildings. UK government buildings are also encouraged to fly the Union Flag all year round.
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