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Models, templates and guidance for constitutions, articles of association and trust deeds for a new charity or charitable trust.
Guidance for charity trustees about serious incidents: how to spot them and how to report.
The Victims' Code focuses on victims' rights and sets out the minimum standard that organisations must provide to victims of crime.
Summary of Victims’ Rights 1. To be able to understand and to be…
Decide whether to set up a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO), a charitable company or an unincorporated association or trust.
Find out what being a charity trustee involves, if you can claim expenses and where to get help and advice.
Guidance about making trustee decisions, including the 7 decision-making principles.
An overview of the government’s new non-statutory definition of anti‑Muslim hostility, what it seeks to address and its intended application.
How to set out your charity's purposes and rules in its governing document, how to start using it and how to change it.
Bespoke model Articles of Association and model Memorandum of Association. Please note: When applying to incorporate a CIC online a Memorandum of Association is not required, it is also not required when applying to conve…
How to close a charity, and what to tell the Charity Commission when you have closed the charity.
Find out how to make changes to your charity's governing document.
What to think about when recruiting and appointing new charity trustees, including rules about who can be a charity trustee.
This guide outlines what the law in England and Wales says a charity is.
How to write a nomination if you want to put someone forward for a national honour.
Comprehensive information for those people who want to form a community interest company (CIC), other stakeholders and those giving professional advice about CICs.
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 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.
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