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What to do to protect people who come into contact with your charity through its work from abuse or mistreatment.
Find out about your responsibilities to keep everyone who comes into contact with your charity safe from harm: this includes volunteers, staff and beneficiaries.
Guidance on the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Volunteering Award.
This guidance aims to help organisations and groups understand how to safely and effectively involve volunteers.
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) guidance on preventing and responding to sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment in the international aid sector.
Nominating someone for an honour, setting up a charity, community participation
DCMS invites applications from grant makers to administer up to £1.7m funding on volunteering projects in 2021/22 and welcomes additional match funding to 2023.
Nominate someone for an honour or bravery award (called a gallantry award), read the New Year honours list - BEMs, MBEs, OBEs, knighthoods, outstanding achievements and contributions to public life.
This guidance sets out information for organisations that deliver charitable activities on how to safeguard people from harm or abuse
This plan explains how the Department for Culture, Media and Sport will implement the Charities Act 2022.
The UK is a world leader and innovator in cultural heritage protection and has taken concrete steps to safeguard some of humanity’s most valued cultural heritage.
Volunteering boost for charities, libraries and museums for disadvantaged areas.
Guidance primarily aimed at local responders covering some humanitarian issues that may arise during the recovery phase of an emergency in the UK.
How trustees, staff and volunteers can protect their charity from abuse by those encouraging extremism, terrorism or illegal activity.
The Charity Commission’s role and approach in dealing with safeguarding issues in charities.
Guidance about working in collaboration with other charities.
How charities can improve their impact on the environment and be energy efficient.
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