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How to decide what your charity’s purposes are and write them in the ‘objects’ clause of your governing document.
Guidance on public benefit and charitable purposes for charities and organisations wishing to become charities.
David Holdsworth's speech to the Association of Charitable Foundations conference 2025
Find out about the rules you must follow to govern your charity.
Guidance on what purposes can be charitable.
How to set out your charity's purposes and rules in its governing document, how to start using it and how to change it.
Charity trustees must 'have regard' to the Charity Commission's public benefit guidance when carrying out activities to which it's relevant.
Employment Appeal Tribunal Judgment of Lord Fairley on 21 January 2026.
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