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Setting up and running a charity

Setting up and running a charity

Your charity's work

From:: The Charity Commission

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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

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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