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Understand the rules and risks when using charity funds to pay a trustee or a person or organisation connected to a trustee.
How to use internal financial controls to manage your charity鈥檚 financial activity and protect it from fraud and loss.
Samples showing the layout and format of trustees鈥� annual reports and accounts under SORP 2005. For samples under SORP FRSSE and SORP FRS 102, see detail below.
How to set up and use your new 'Charity Commission Account' and manage other users鈥� access and permissions.
Guidance about making trustee decisions, including the 7 decision-making principles.
Find out about the rules you must follow to govern your charity.
How to decide what your charity鈥檚 purposes are and write them in the 鈥榦bjects鈥� clause of your governing document.
Understand what information you will need to prepare for the Annual Return 2025, and why new questions have been included.
Find out about your responsibilities to keep everyone who comes into contact with your charity safe from harm: this includes volunteers, staff and beneficiaries.
Directions and guidance the examiner must follow and the role and responsibility of independent examiners when examining the accounts of a charity.
Use our online service to keep your charity鈥檚 information and contact details up-to-date with the Charity Commission.
How to change your charity structure, for example from unincorporated to a CIO or charitable company.
Find out how to make sure that your charity鈥檚 money is safe, properly used and accounted for.
How trustees set up their Charity Commission Account.
Read about the sorts of concerns and complaints about charities to raise with the charity regulator. This guidance is now the Commission鈥檚 Regulatory and Risk Framework.
How to register your charity once it has been set up, what you need before you start your application and what happens after you apply.
Charity trustees must 'have regard' to the Charity Commission's public benefit guidance when carrying out activities to which it's relevant.
A charity's objects are a statement of its purposes - they must be exclusively charitable.
Find out how to pay less tax as a charity and when to set up a subsidiary trading company.
Find out what sort of wrongdoing you can report to the Charity Commission, and how to report it.
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