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Find out when and how charities can engage in trading to raise funds and how to apply income on trading profits.
This guidance for charities explains the automatic disqualification rules.
Privacy notice about how we process your personal data when you set up and use 鈥楳y Charity Commission Account鈥�.
Find out how to keep your charity cyber secure, respond to cyber attacks, and report cyber crime.
As a new charity trustee, this guide will help you in your role. It can also be used by existing trustees to refresh knowledge and skills.
How to link charities to make accounting and reporting easier.
Use this checklist to review your charity's effectiveness at AGMs, trustee meetings, awayday discussions or planning meetings.
Follow employment laws and plan for risks when employing paid workers at your charity.
When charities can trade, tax rules and when to trade through a separate company.
Find out how charities can merge with other charities.
Choose a unique name that people will remember when they want to make a donation or to volunteer.
Guidance for excepted churches, schools, Scout and Guide groups, and armed forces charities.
What charities need to consider when campaigning or engaging in political activity. Also includes guidance about Elections and Referendums.
How to run your charity for the public benefit.
Charity Commission guidance on the legal requirement that charities provide public benefit.
Find out how to change your charity鈥檚 financial year (or financial period).
What charity trustees must do if they want to make an ex gratia payment from charity funds.
How to report on your charity's public benefit.
Guidance for auditors and independent examiners about the statutory duty to report any matters of significance to charity regulators in England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
How to identify and manage risks, handle money safely and protect your staff and beneficiaries if your charity works overseas.
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