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How to decide what your charity’s purposes are and write them in the ‘objects’ clause of your governing document.
Find out about the rules you must follow to govern your charity.
Explains what research and development (R&D) means for tax purposes.
Guidance on what purposes can be charitable.
Guidance on public benefit and charitable purposes for charities and organisations wishing to become charities.
Find out about being 'active', trading and non-trading, and being dormant if you’re a new or existing company or organisation.
Charity trustees must 'have regard' to the Charity Commission's public benefit guidance when carrying out activities to which it's relevant.
Guidance on infant and follow-on formula, the application form for infant and follow-on formula made from protein hydrolysates, and forms to notify the authority.
Data about why people travel, produced by Department for Transport.
How a church hall may be used for other charitable purposes if it is no longer needed exclusively for church purposes.
Details of the exceptions to copyright that allow limited use of copyright works without the permission of the copyright owner.
An explanation of how UKHSA processes your personal data when you apply to access it for secondary purposes
Apply for a licence to excavate buried human remains from an archaeological site in England and Wales.
How trustees, staff and volunteers can protect their charity from abuse by those encouraging extremism, terrorism or illegal activity.
Find out how to value stocks and shares of someone who has died. How you value them depends on whether they are 'listed' or 'unlisted'.
How to market forest reproductive material (FRM) for forestry purposes, including regulations, registration, master certificates and licences.
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