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On 10 October 2015, several changes under the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (the 'SBEEA') come into force.

According to the Sunday Times Giving List, the super rich donated £3.2 billion over the last year and the majority of them have made, rather than inherited their wealth.

The Charities Act 2022 has been coming into force in stages since it received Royal Assent on 28 February 2022.

The Charities Act 2011 came into force on 14 March 2012.

Our charities and social media update took place on Tuesday 26th September. If you were able to attend, we hope you found it useful. Your participation and engagement were greatly appreciated.

The Modern Slavery Act 2015 (the <strong>'Act</strong>') which received Royal Assent on 26 March this year, will introduce new transparency requirements that will require businesses to prove that no slavery and/or human trafficking is taking place within their business and/or their supply chains.

The Charity Commission has released the full details of the 2013 Annual Return which contains a small number of changes in response to the consultation.

In 2007, Dominic Kennedy requested information under the Freedom of Information Act concerning three inquiries the Commission carried out into the Mariam Appeal.

A statutory inquiry into Africa Relief Trust has been opened by the Charity Commission to assess whether the charity’s trustees have properly discharged their trustee duties.

The Charity Commission has revised its guidance on amending charity governing documents, introducing separate frameworks for different charity structures and expanding requirements around conflicts of interest, member consultation, and trustee benefits. These changes aim to clarify legal obligations and improve practical usability for charity administrators navigating constitutional amendments.

The Charity Commission for England and Wales has opened a consultation to explore the risks non-profit organisations (NPOs) face from terrorist financing schemes.

The Charity Commission has opened an informal consultation on its new draft guidance, ‘Managing conflicts of interest: a guide for trustees’.

Following a report by the NAO in 2013, the Charity Commission has acknowledged that its approach to tackling problems in charities in the past was at times too cautious, and that an improvement in the way it identifies and addresses deliberate abuse in charities is needed

The Commission has published the results of its consultation on the type of information collected on charities.

In July, the Commission updated its guidance on using e-signatures on certain financial reports. The update is in the latest version of the guidance CC15d: Charity reporting and accounting: the essentials.

Any charities or other non-profit bodies which carry out activities which are ‘cultural’, but which do not appear in the UK legislation should seek advice regarding their position.

Mountstar had appealed to the High Court over the Commission’s decision to open a statutory inquiry into the Cup Trust and to appoint an interim manger of the charity but the tribunal ruled that there was an overwhelming public interest in the Commission’s inquiry.

The UK government has laid an order before Parliament to increase several financial thresholds in the Charities Acts, following a consultation last year.