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You usually need a licence from PPL PRS to play live or recorded music in public - includes playing background music at your business, and staging live music or theatre productions.

Probation is when you serve a court sentence in the community, and can include unpaid work or being supervised after coming out of prison

• Overview

  Probation means you’re serving your sentence but you’re not in prison. You…

• Meetings with your offender manager

  When you’re on probation you may have meetings with your offender manager.…

• If you break the rules of your probation

  You could go back to court if you break any rules of your probation. For…

• Being taken back to prison

  You can be taken straight back to prison if you have been released on…

• Ask to be released again on probation

  If you have been taken back to prison and think you should be released on…

Tax relief on donations, Gift Aid, payroll giving, leaving a gift in your will, keeping tax records; find a charity; donating land, property or shares

• Overview

  Donations by individuals to charity or to community amateur sports clubs…

• Gift Aid

  Donating through Gift Aid means charities and community amateur sports…

• Donating straight from your wages or pension

  If your employer, company or personal pension provider runs a Payroll…

• Donating land, property or shares

  You do not have to pay tax on land, property or shares you donate to…

• Leaving gifts to charity in your will

  Your will says what will happen to your money, property and possessions…

• Keeping records

  You need to keep records of donations if you want to claim tax back on…

Get endorsement and approval to apply for the Global Talent visa to work in the UK as a leader in arts and culture - architecture, fashion, film, television.

Stoke Heath’s family strategy outlines how we support prisoners in our care to develop meaningful and constructive relationships with their family or significant others.

• Updated: 28 January 2026

How to pay Inheritance Tax: get a reference number, payment methods, use the deceased's bank account, National Savings and Investments, government stock, yearly instalments.

How to pay Corporation Tax: payment reference number, online, Bacs or CHAPS, Direct Debit, cheque or at your bank.

Gartree is a high security men’s prison in Market Harborough, Leicestershire.

• Updated: 21 October 2025

Advice for state-funded school admission authorities, independent schools, local authorities and parents.

• Updated: 28 March 2024

It is against the law to discriminate against anyone because of their sex, religion, disability or certain other personal characteristics ('protected characteristics')