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Decide whether to set up a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO), a charitable company or an unincorporated association or trust.
Models, templates and guidance for constitutions, articles of association and trust deeds for a new charity or charitable trust.
The Victims' Code focuses on victims' rights and sets out the minimum standard that organisations must provide to victims of crime.
Summary of Victims’ Rights 1. To be able to understand and to be…
Mapping resources, interactive tools and Open Data facilities to aid user’s exploration of the English indices of deprivation 2019.
How to set out your charity's purposes and rules in its governing document, how to start using it and how to change it.
Find out what being a charity trustee involves, if you can claim expenses and where to get help and advice.
How to close a charity, and what to tell the Charity Commission when you have closed the charity.
Bespoke model Articles of Association 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 …
Guidance for charity trustees about serious incidents: how to spot them and how to report.
This guide outlines what the law in England and Wales says a charity is.
Find out what procedures you need to follow to resign as a charity trustee or remove a trustee from the board.
The recruitment, appointment and induction process for new charity trustees and how to set a framework for recruitment.
Find out how to make changes to your charity's governing document.
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…
How to use internal financial controls to manage your charity’s financial activity and protect it from fraud and loss.
Comprehensive information for those people who want to form a community interest company (CIC), other stakeholders and those giving professional advice about CICs.
How to decide what your charity’s purposes are and write them in the ‘objects’ clause of your governing document.
Guidance about making trustee decisions, including the 7 decision-making principles.
How to write a nomination if you want to put someone forward for a national honour.
Charity trustees must 'have regard' to the Charity Commission's public benefit guidance when carrying out activities to which it's relevant.
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