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Find out about Natural England's progress with improving coastal access in England.
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.
Everything you need to know about how to become a sponsor including things to consider and thank you payments.
Find out about your responsibilities to keep everyone who comes into contact with your charity safe from harm: this includes volunteers, staff and beneficiaries.
Guidance about trustee expenses, including what costs can be paid as expenses and what should be in a trustee expenses policy.
A charity's objects are a statement of its purposes - they must be exclusively charitable.
Find out which Environment Agency locks and weirs you can fish at, the licences and permits you need and when you can fish.
How trustees set up their Charity Commission Account.
This guidance is for anyone applying for a British passport who was born in the UK to parent(s) from the EEA.
How to apply to the Court of Protection to challenge an order restricting someone's freedom or get a deprivation of liberty authorised.
South East byelaws are statutory (regulated by law) rules and regulations explaining who can fish, where, when and what fish you can take.
This guide summarises the range of community rights opportunities available to people.
How to transfer all your charity’s assets to another charity if it merges, changes structure or closes.
Find out what charity reserves are and how to develop and report on a charity's reserves policy.
A lot has been done to help make sure people are treated fairly. We wanted to bring these laws together into the Equality Act so they are clear…
How charities and CASCs can make written, verbal and online declarations and what information to include.
Regulations setting out what should be included in a governing document for a CIO.
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.
How to use the General Register Office to find birth certificates when researching your family tree and family history.
Overview of the main measures of the Localism Act 2011.
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