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Guidance to help you set up and run your charity.
What's required of a charity trustee, including your responsibilities to your charity.
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How to set up and use your new 'Charity Commission Account' to access online services on behalf of your charity.
What to do to protect people who come into contact with your charity through its work from abuse or mistreatment.
Read about your trustee duties when making grants to charities and other organisations, including situations where you need to take extra care.
Find out about the types of fundraising donations that charities and community amateur sports clubs (CASCs) can and cannot claim Gift Aid on.
What to put in your trustees' annual report, depending on your charity's income and the value of its assets.
This page explains upcoming changes to how charities report and prepare their accounts.
Before you start to set up a charity make sure that you know it is the best option for what you want to do.
Find out what sort of wrongdoing you can report to the Charity Commission, and how to report it.
Find out about your responsibilities to keep everyone who comes into contact with your charity safe from harm: this includes volunteers, staff and beneficiaries.
Check who is eligible to be a trustee and what skills they need to have
Understand the rules and risks when using charity funds to pay a trustee or a person or organisation connected to a trustee.
Guidance for people who are thinking about fundraising for charity, including for an emergency situation, from the Charity Commission of England and Wales and the Fundraising Regulator.
Find out about the rules you must follow to govern your charity.
Directions and guidance the examiner must follow and the role and responsibility of independent examiners when examining the accounts of a charity.
How to set up and use your new 'Charity Commission Account' and manage other users’ access and permissions.
Understand what information you will need to prepare for the Annual Return 2025, and why new questions have been included.
Find out about the role of a charity trustee, what they do and the benefits of getting involved.
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