- Protect your charity’s money
- Know your charity’s financial position
- Keep accurate financial records
- Manage expenses and payments to trustees
- Deal with financial problems quickly
Achieving a charity’s purposes
- Use your charity’s governing document
- Focus on your charity’s purposes
- Public benefit
- What else your governing document says
- The law
- Follow the principles
- Keep records from the start
- Follow your charity’s rules and the law
- Get the information you need
- Plan your meetings
- Manage conflicts of interest
- Work together to make decisions
- Involve others at your charity
Addressing conflicts of interest
- Identify conflicts of interest
- Declare conflicts of interest (step 1)
- Consider removing conflicts of interest (step 2)
- Manage conflicts of interest (step 3)
- Keep a record of conflicts of interest (step 4)
- What to do about serious conflicts of interest
What to file with the Commission and what support is available
- Charity register details (for trustees of registered charities only)
- Annual return, report and accounts
- Dealing with serious problems and reporting them to us
- Free help, information and services you can get from us (for all charities)
- Other sources of help to support trustees
- Further information about how the Charity Commission supports and regulates charities
The Charity Commission undertook user testing with trustees and engaged with sector bodies in preparing the guides, and they have been designed with real trustees and real situations in mind.
The next step
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