Guidance and regulation

Decide whether to set up a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO), a charitable company or an unincorporated association or trust.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 4 November 2014

Models, templates and guidance for constitutions, articles of association and trust deeds for a new charity or charitable trust.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 11 October 2022

The Victims' Code focuses on victims' rights and sets out the minimum standard that organisations must provide to victims of crime.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 29 February 2024

• Code of Practice for Victims of Crime in England and Wales (Victims' Code)

  Summary of Victims’ Rights 1. To be able to understand and to be…

How to set out your charity's purposes and rules in its governing document, how to start using it and how to change it.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 11 December 2014

Comprehensive information for those people who want to form a community interest company (CIC), other stakeholders and those giving professional advice about CICs.

• From: Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies
• Updated: 9 February 2024

Information about the approved organisations that can help you find a guest or a host.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 16 January 2023

Find out what being a charity trustee involves, if you can claim expenses and where to get help and advice.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 3 May 2018

Find out what procedures you need to follow to resign as a charity trustee or remove a trustee from the board.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 23 May 2013

Guidance for charity trustees about serious incidents: how to spot them and how to report.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 14 June 2019

This guide outlines what the law in England and Wales says a charity is.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 1 September 2013

How trustees set up their Charity Commission Account.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 16 November 2023

Mapping resources, interactive tools and Open Data facilities to aid user’s exploration of the English indices of deprivation 2019.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
• Updated: 26 September 2019

The recruitment, appointment and induction process for new charity trustees and how to set a framework for recruitment.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 7 March 2024

Everything you need to know about how to become a sponsor including things to consider and thank you payments.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 19 February 2024

How to close a charity, and what to tell the Charity Commission when you have closed the charity.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 7 March 2024

How to decide what your charity’s purposes are and write them in the ‘objects’ clause of your governing document.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 4 November 2014

Bespoke model constitutions for use when forming or converting to a CIC, with memorandum of association and articles of association templates. When completing section A8 of form IN01, please only tick "option 3-bespoke …

• From: Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies
• Updated: 20 March 2019

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…

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 1 April 2013

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.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 2 February 2015

How to manage your charity’s financial activity and use internal financial controls to reduce the risk of loss.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 26 April 2023