Guidance from the Charity Commission for all charities who may be considering working in partnership or merging with other organisations. 

f you are registered with the Charity Commission and plan to close your charity down or merge with another charity – simply complete the online forms. The Register of Charities’ online application and update process is quick and easy.

Useful guidance from the Charity Commission on how to make mergers work. This guide complements many of their other resources on mergers also listed here. 

NVCO has published free step-by-step guides for consortia development. They come with action plan templates for you to complete to track the progress of your development. 

This Sayer Vincent guide to mergers is for financial professionals working with charities .

The University of Liverpool’s Charity Law Unit produced this useful practice guide to mergers.

Mergers and acquisitions are fairly new to the charity sector. This report aims to probe how organisations are coping with merger, understand the components of “best practice” and decide what support might be needed to ensure good outcomes .

Another Charity Commission tool to be used alongside their other guides on mergers. 

This guide is aimed at charities that provide services to individuals and involve individuals in the development of services or facilities supplied to them. The general principles are also useful to any charity seeking input from their users. 

The recruitment, selection and induction of trustees can strongly influence how effective a charity is in the future. This guidance from the Charity Commission answers some common questions and sets out a framework for the recruitment process .

This is one of a series of reports by the Charity Commission that raises awareness of issues on trustee recruitment, selection and induction. It will help charities maximise their impact, comply with legal obligations and enhance effectiveness.

This Charity Commission report helps increase understanding of recruiting young people as charity trustees. It encourages charities to build a diverse trustee board and proposes ways to attract more young people to take up charity trustee roles .