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How to manage and review your charity's connection to a non-charity.
Advice on actions trustees can take to improve their charity’s finances, protect against financial difficulties and understand what to do if their charity is insolvent or at risk of insolvency.
Find out what your charity must send to the Commission and what services to use to help you get things right.
Find out about making valid trustee decisions that are in your charity’s best interests.
The rules for charities that want to support, or oppose, a change in government policy or the law.
How to follow the law if you sell alcohol at a charity event, including when you need to pay tax.
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).
Guidance about trustee expenses, including what costs can be paid as expenses and what should be in a trustee expenses policy.
Find out about the rules you must follow for spending, borrowing from, or transferring your charity’s permanent endowment.
Find out about the rules that apply to the selling, leasing or otherwise disposing of charity land.
Guidance explains what independent examination involves, how to select an independent examiner for your charity and what you need to do to prepare for an independent examination.
Read about the changes that have been introduced by the Charities Act 2022.
What it means to be an 'exempt' charity and how exempt charities are regulated.
Troubleshooting tips for our most frequently asked questions about using My Charity Commission Account.
Charity Commission guidance on the legal requirement that charities provide public benefit.
Information on charity banking and the support available to charities trying to access adequate banking services.
This guidance for charities explains the automatic disqualification rules.
Find out what trustees need to do before deciding whether to make a grant to an organisation that isn’t a charity.
What charities need to consider when campaigning or engaging in political activity. Also includes guidance about Elections and Referendums.
How to request an account, and access to different services or additional charities.
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