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

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. 

This report aims to support new and developing charities by exploring some of the issues charities encounter. It disseminates the information gained from charities’ experience and illustrates some best practice ways of addressing them. 

This guide explains how Gift Aid works for a charity. The administration of Gift Aid can be a burden and you need to follow the rules to avoid problems during a Gift Aid audit.

This guide explains grants and contracts, and how to treat them for VAT and accounting purposes.

This guide provides a step-by-step process for handling a merger or a takeover, explaining the options for different structures.

This guide explains how to understand your costs to help you make good pricing decisions.

This guide aims to make reading a set of charity accounts simple for those new to the charity sector.

This guide sets out a method for analysing your charity’s financial position and developing a robust reserves policy.

This guide provides a framework to share a common understanding about risk and a tool for management decision-making.

This guide explains the positive impact of the constructive use of risk management techniques in your charity.

This guide explains the main Gift Aid, VAT and direct tax consequences of the most common charity fundraising activities.