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How to transfer all your charity’s assets to another charity if it merges, changes structure or closes.
Find out how to identify and deal with conflicts of interest in your charity.
Samples showing the layout and format of trustees’ annual reports and accounts under SORP 2005. For samples under SORP FRSSE and SORP FRS 102, see detail below.
Trustees must carry out due diligence checks on donors, beneficiaries and local partners and can also monitor end use of funds.
Legal rules for trustees when deciding whether to accept, refuse or return a donation.
What trustees need to do when preparing trustees’ annual reports, accounts and annual returns for accounting periods beginning on or after 1 November 2016.
How trustees can identify, assess and manage risks to their charity.
Guidance for individuals about automatic disqualification rules, what to do if you become disqualified and how to apply for a waiver.
You can start to raise funds for your charity once you have your governing document and trustees in place.
Find out about making valid trustee decisions that are in your charity’s best interests.
Find out the legal and regulatory requirements relating to conflicts of interest and how trustees can identify and manage them.
What it means to be an 'exempt' charity and how exempt charities are regulated.
Find out what your charity must send to the Commission and what services to use to help you get things right.
Read about the sorts of concerns and complaints about charities to raise with the charity regulator. This guidance is now the Commission’s Regulatory and Risk Framework.
What a charity registration certificate is and how to get one.
Guidance on what purposes can be charitable.
If you are a Community Interest Company (CIC) you can apply to convert directly to a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO).
How to apply to remove a trustee’s legal name from public display on the charity register in England and Wales (known as a dispensation).
Charity Commission guidance on running a village hall.
The rules for charities that want to support, or oppose, a change in government policy or the law.
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