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This guidance explains what liability orders are in child maintenance cases and how to pay them.
How to use the General Register Office to find birth certificates when researching your family tree and family history.
How to transfer all your charity’s assets to another charity if it merges, changes structure or closes.
How charities and CASCs can make written, verbal and online declarations and what information to include.
What trustees need to do when preparing trustees’ annual reports, accounts and annual returns for accounting periods beginning on or after 1 November 2016.
A list of the supporting documents you need to provide when applying for a passport from outside the UK.
Guidance on how digital identity providers can become certified to complete digital identity checks for the 'Right to Work', 'Right to Rent' and DBS schemes.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
You can start to raise funds for your charity once you have your governing document and trustees in place.
How trustees can identify, assess and manage risks to their charity.
Trustees must carry out due diligence checks on donors, beneficiaries and local partners and can also monitor end use of funds.
This guidance is for anyone applying for a British passport who was born in the UK to parent(s) from the EEA.
Guidance for councils supporting guests who hold (or previously held) Homes for Ukraine permission and have applied, or will be applying, for permission under the Ukraine Permission Extension (UPE) scheme.
Guidance for individuals about automatic disqualification rules, what to do if you become disqualified and how to apply for a waiver.
Guidance on responding to incidents and safeguarding children and young people.
South East byelaws are statutory (regulated by law) rules and regulations explaining who can fish, where, when and what fish you can take.
Read about the sorts of concerns and complaints about charities to raise with the charity regulator. This guidance is now the Commission’s Regulatory and Risk Framework.
Find out the legal and regulatory requirements relating to conflicts of interest and how trustees can identify and manage them.
Find how to claim top-up payments on small donations up to £30 if you’re a charity or community amateur sports club (CASC).
Guidance for sponsors about applications to Homes for Ukraine for children who are not travelling with or joining their parent or legal guardian.
What a charity registration certificate is and how to get one.
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