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Access to our online services has changed. Set up or sign into your new My Charity Commission Account.
How to set up and use your new 'Charity Commission Account' to access online services on behalf of your charity.
Charities registered in England or Wales must send an annual return to the Charity Commission or report their income and spending every year.
Guidance to help you set up and run your charity.
How to set up and use your new 'Charity Commission Account' and manage other users’ access and permissions.
Decide whether to set up a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO), a charitable company or an unincorporated association or trust.
Models, templates and guidance for constitutions, articles of association and trust deeds for a new charity or charitable trust.
What's required of a charity trustee, including your responsibilities to your charity.
Understand the rules on political activity and campaigning and how they are regulated now a general election has been called.
What to do to protect people who come into contact with your charity through its work from abuse or mistreatment.
Guidance for charity trustees about serious incidents: how to spot them and how to report.
How to set out your charity's purposes and rules in its governing document, how to start using it and how to change it.
How to close a charity, and what to tell the Charity Commission when you have closed the charity.
Find out how to make changes to your charity's governing document.
Before you start to set up a charity make sure that you know it is the best option for what you want to do.
How trustees set up their Charity Commission Account.
Find out what procedures you need to follow to resign as a charity trustee or remove a trustee from the board.
The Charities SORP provides guidance to preparers of charity accounts. The SORP provides recommendations and requirements setting out how to prepare ‘true and fair’ accounts in accordance with UK accounting standards. The SO…
This guide outlines what the law in England and Wales says a charity is.
The rules for charities that want to support, or oppose, a change in government policy or the law.
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