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How to decide what your charity’s purposes are and write them in the ‘objects’ clause of your governing document.
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 internal financial controls to manage your charity’s financial activity and protect it from fraud and loss.
Guidance to help those who work in early years settings consider their practice and to take steps to safeguard both children and adults online.
Information about the Better Futures Fund.
How to set up and use your new 'Charity Commission Account' and manage other users’ access and permissions.
How charities and CASCs can make written, verbal and online declarations and what information to include.
This guidance is for anyone applying for a British passport who was born in the UK to parent(s) from the EEA.
Directions and guidance the examiner must follow and the role and responsibility of independent examiners when examining the accounts of a charity.
Guidance on responding to incidents and safeguarding children and young people.
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.
How to apply to the Court of Protection to challenge an order restricting someone's freedom or get a deprivation of liberty authorised.
Read about your trustee duties when making grants to charities and other organisations, including situations where you need to take extra care.
A charity's objects are a statement of its purposes - they must be exclusively charitable.
Guidance to apply for a letter to confirm your nationality status.
Find out which Environment Agency locks and weirs you can fish at, the licences and permits you need and when you can fish.
How to transfer all your charity’s assets to another charity if it merges, changes structure or closes.
Charity trustees must 'have regard' to the Charity Commission's public benefit guidance when carrying out activities to which it's relevant.
Understand the rules and risks when using charity funds to pay a trustee or a person or organisation connected to a trustee.
How trustees set up their Charity Commission Account.
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