Setting up and running a charity
Managing your charity: detailed information
Subscriptions
Forms
Introductory guides
Essential reading
- 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
- Safeguarding and protecting people for charities and trustees
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
- Charities and terrorism
- 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
- 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 template: receipts and payments accounts (CC16)
- Receipts and payments accounts pack (CC16)
- Independent examiner's report template (SORP 2005)
- Accruals accounts packs (CC17 and CC39) - SORP 2005
- Charity accounting template: accruals accounts (CC17) - SORP 2005
- Charity accounting template: accruals accounts (CC39) - SORP 2005
- Internal financial controls for charities (CC8)
- The Charities Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP)
- Accruals accounts pack (CC17) - SORP FRS 102
Land, property and assets
- Charity land and property
- How to transfer charity assets
- 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
Technical guidance
Alerts and warnings
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