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Setting up and running a charity

Setting up and running a charity

Managing your charity

From:: The Charity Commission, Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, Closed organisation: English Heritage, HM Revenue & Customs, and Welsh Government

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Forms

Send a charity's annual return
Change your charity's details
Change your charity's governing document
Change your charity's name
Remove a charity from the charities register
Charity trustee: declaration of eligibility and responsibility
Get a charity registration certificate

Essential reading

Charity trustee: what’s involved (CC3a)
Prepare a charity annual return
Prepare a charity trustees' annual report
Charity meetings: making decisions and voting
Trustee board: people and skills
Charity staff: how to employ paid workers
How to report a serious incident in your charity
Charity trustees: resignation and removal
The essential trustee: what you need to know, what you need to do (CC3)
Making digital work: 12 questions for trustees to consider
Charity governance, finance and resilience: 15 questions trustees should ask

Change what your charity does

How to make changes to your charity’s governing document
How to write your charity's governing document (CC22b)
Change your charity structure
Charity types: how to choose a structure (CC22a)
How to write charitable purposes
How we approve changes to charities
Change a charity governing document by scheme

Protect your charity from harm

How to manage risks in your charity
Charities: how to protect children and adults at risk
How to insure your charity
Manage a conflict of interest in your charity
Charities and terrorism
Charities: holding, moving and receiving funds safely
Charities: fraud and financial crime
Protecting charities from abuse for extremist purposes
Charities: due diligence, monitoring and verifying the end use of charitable funds
Charities and risk management (CC26)
Conflicts of interest: a guide for charity trustees (CC29)

Reporting and accounts

Charity reporting and accounting: the essentials November 2016 (CC15d)
Trustees' annual report template (SORP 2005)
Charity accounting templates: receipts and payments accounts
Receipts and payments accounts pack (CC16)
Independent examiner's report template (SORP 2005)
Accruals accounts packs (CC17 and CC39) - SORP 2005
Charity accounting templates: accruals accounts (CC17) - SORP 2005
Charity accounting templates: accruals accounts (CC39) - SORP 2005
Internal financial controls for charities (CC8)
The Charities SORP: new SORPs and SORP 2005
Accruals accounts pack (CC17) - SORP FRS 102

Land, property and assets

Charity land and property
How to transfer charity assets
Charity finances: trustee essentials (CC25)
Sales leases transfers or mortgages: what trustees need to know about disposing of charity land (CC28)
Transfer charity land or property to the Official Custodian
Almshouse factsheets
Appointing nominees and custodians (CC42)
Selling or leasing charity land for less than best price
Sell or lease property to someone connected to your charity
Use of church halls for village hall and other charitable purposes (CC18)
Village halls: answers to some common questions
The Official Custodian for Charities' 'land holding' service (CC13)
Charitable registered social landlords

Work with other organisations

How to merge or link charities
Making mergers work: helping you succeed
Public service delivery: rules for charities
Choosing to collaborate: helping you succeed
Register of merged charities

Technical guidance

Exempt charities (CC23)
Excepted charities
Charities and insurance (CC49)
Finding new trustees (CC30)
Changing your charity's governing document (CC36)
Charities and meetings (CC48)
Return a gift: how charities can make moral (ex gratia) payments
The Companies Act 2006: guidance for charities
Safeguarding children and young people
Vicarious liability of a charity or its trustees

Alerts and warnings

Charity Commission alerts, decisions, reports and statements
Regulatory alerts: Charity Commission
Commission warns charities on business rates relief
Be aware of suspect donations - advice for charities
Alerts issued prior to 2013

Public benefit and charitable purposes

Public benefit: rules for charities
Charitable purposes and public benefit
Charitable purposes
Public benefit: an overview
Public benefit: the public benefit requirement (PB1)
Public benefit: running a charity (PB2)
Public benefit: reporting (PB3)
What makes a charity (CC4)
Legal analysis: public benefit

Research and analysis

Charities and commercial partners (RS2)
Collaborative working and mergers (RS4)
Milestones: managing key events (RS6)
Going green: charities and environmental responsibility (RS17)
A breath of fresh air (RS23)

Other

Charities and charity trustees: school governors
Charities providing housing
Disaster appeals: Charity Commission guidance on starting, running and supporting charitable disaster appeals (CC40)
Disposal of redundant churches and other places of worship
Equality Act: guidance for charities
Examples of personal benefit
Faith-based charities
How to close a charity
How to register a charity (CC21b)
It's your decision: charity trustees and decision making (CC27)
Local authorities as charity trustees
NHS charities guidance
Parochial church councils and chancel repair liability
Recreation ground charities
Schools, colleges and universities: Charity Commission
Statements on live cases: Charity Commission
The Extended Schools Initiative

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