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Setting up and running a charity

Your charity's work: detailed information

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Essential reading

  • Trustee board: people and skills
  • Public benefit: rules for charities
  • Charity meetings: making decisions and voting
  • How to manage your charity's volunteers
  • Campaigning and political activity guidance for charities (CC9)
  • Charities: how to manage risks when working internationally
  • Charities: disaster and emergency appeals
  • How to insure your charity
  • Work with other charities
  • Safeguarding and protecting people for charities and trustees

Alerts and warnings

  • Commission warns charities on business rates relief
  • Charity Commission alerts, decisions, reports and statements
  • Comment and speeches: Charity Commission

Protect your charity from harm

  • Charities and terrorism
  • Charities: fraud and financial crime
  • Charities: holding, moving and receiving funds safely
  • Protecting charities from abuse for extremist purposes
  • Charities: due diligence, monitoring and verifying the end use of charitable funds
  • Statutory inquiries into charities: guidance for charities (CC46)

Research and analysis

  • Research: Charity Commission
  • Charities and commercial partners (RS2)
  • Membership charities (RS7)
  • Village halls and community centres (RS9)
  • Cause for complaint? (RS11)
  • The regeneration game (RS12)
  • In their own words (RS14)
  • Stand and deliver (RS15)
  • Charities working in the field of human rights (RS16)
  • A balancing act (RS18)
  • Charities' attitudes towards public benefit requirement (RS22)
  • Strength in numbers (RS24)
  • Public benefit reporting by charities (RS25)
  • Consortia for the delivery of public services (RS26)
  • Impact of the public benefit requirement (RS27)
  • Birth of a charity (RS29)
  • Charities and social investment (RS30)

Other

  • A guide to corporate foundations
  • Acquiring land (CC33)
  • Charitable purposes and public benefit
  • Charities and insurance (CC49)
  • Charities and public service delivery: an introduction (CC37)
  • Collaborative working and mergers: an introduction (CC34)
  • Complaints about charities (CC47)
  • Faith-based charities
  • How to write your charity's governing document (CC22b)
  • Parliamentary briefings: Charity Commission
  • Provision of charity interim managers: statement of requirements
  • Public benefit: running a charity (PB2)
  • Public trust and confidence in charities (RS31)
  • Regulatory work: Charity Commission
  • Research by higher education institutions
  • The Companies Act 2006: guidance for charities

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