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Models, templates and guidance for constitutions, articles of association and trust deeds for a new charity or charitable trust.
Find out what being a charity trustee involves, if you can claim expenses and where to get help and advice.
Decide whether to set up a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO), a charitable company or an unincorporated association or trust.
Guidance for charity trustees about serious incidents: how to spot them and how to report.
The Victims' Code focuses on victims' rights and sets out the minimum standard that organisations must provide to victims of crime.
Advice on staying well in cold weather, covering issues such as financial help, healthy lifestyle, flu vaccinations and heating.
How to close a charity, and what to tell the Charity Commission when you have closed the charity.
How to set out your charity's purposes and rules in its governing document, how to start using it and how to change it.
Bespoke model Articles of Association and model Memorandum of Association. Please note: When applying to incorporate a CIC online a Memorandum of Association is not required, it is also not required when applying to conve…
What to think about when recruiting and appointing new charity trustees, including rules about who can be a charity trustee.
The Charities SORP provides guidance to preparers of charity accounts. The SORP provides recommendations and requirements setting out how to prepare ‘true and fair’ accounts in accordance with UK accounting standards. The SO…
Find out how to make changes to your charity's governing document.
How to write a nomination if you want to put someone forward for a national honour.
Mapping resources, interactive tools and Open Data facilities to aid user’s exploration of the English indices of deprivation 2019.
Resources and training to learn English.
Everything you need to know about how to become a sponsor including things to consider and thank you payments.
Report presenting the concepts and methodology underpinning the indices and the indicators that make up the indices.
This guide outlines what the law in England and Wales says a charity is.
How to use internal financial controls to manage your charity’s financial activity and protect it from fraud and loss.
Find out what procedures you need to follow to resign as a charity trustee or remove a trustee from the board.
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