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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.
How to decide what your charity’s purposes are and write them in the ‘objects’ clause of your governing document.
Guidance about making trustee decisions, including the 7 decision-making principles.
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 how the Conditional Exemption Tax Incentive scheme works and what may qualify for relief.
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.
How trustees set up their Charity Commission Account.
These documents present high-level data to support the Plan for Neighbourhoods programme, and are intended to support Neighbourhood Boards in identifying and evidencing local needs.
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.
Guidance to help those who work in early years settings consider their practice and to take steps to safeguard both children and adults online.
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.
A guide to the flags that can be flown without permission from your local planning authority.
This page introduces the Participation Survey and links to all relevant documents.
Understand what information you will need to prepare for the Annual Return 2025, and why new questions have been included.
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.
Tools and resources to help put the Civil Society Covenant into practice.
Regulations setting out what should be included in a governing document for a CIO.
Buy multiple licences for Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) driving theory e-learning for all of the learner drivers you teach or drivers you employ.
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