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Comprehensive information for those people who want to form a community interest company (CIC), other stakeholders and those giving professional advice about CICs.
Help completing the passport application form from outside the UK.
Everything you need to know about how to become a sponsor including things to consider and thank you payments.
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 page explains upcoming changes to how charities report and prepare their accounts.
This grant will fund a national lived experience provider to work with partners and the central government team to strengthen cross-area learning, and ensure lived experience plays a central role in program design, delivery …
How to use internal financial controls to manage your charity’s financial activity and protect it from fraud and loss.
How to decide what your charity’s purposes are and write them in the ‘objects’ clause of your governing document.
Find out what procedures you need to follow to resign as a charity trustee or remove a trustee from the board.
This guidance is for anyone applying for a British passport who was born in the UK to parent(s) from the EEA.
Find out what sort of wrongdoing you can report to the Charity Commission, and how to report it.
How charities and CASCs can make written, verbal and online declarations and what information to include.
Find out about the rules you must follow to govern your charity.
How to apply to the Court of Protection to challenge an order restricting someone's freedom or get a deprivation of liberty authorised.
Information about the Better Futures Fund.
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.
A list of the supporting documents you need to provide when applying for a passport from outside the UK.
Find out about your responsibilities to keep everyone who comes into contact with your charity safe from harm: this includes volunteers, staff and beneficiaries.
How to change your charity structure, for example from unincorporated to a CIO or charitable company.
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