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This document, formally known as ‘Conflicts of interest: a guide for charity trustees’, is official guidance from the Charity Commission for England and Wales (‘the Commission’).

If your community benefit society has a statutory asset lock, your options for changing legal form are limited, as the asset lock may not be altered or removed from the rules.

A discussion on a judgment which deals with combined cases in which three individuals had been respectively warned, cautioned and convicted by the Police.

When former BP Chief Executive Lord Browne, one of the earliest proponents of corporate social responsibility (CSR), declared last year that the movement was "dead", he was not alone in his cynicism.

An article series for charities and social enterprises explaining important contractual concepts and terms, providing recent updates to contract law.

Encouraging contractual performance - the carrot or the stick? What are penalties and why are they problematic?

The 2022 to 2023 Academies Accounts Direction made it clear that the ESFA expect trusts to include lengthier descriptions of the processes in place to manage conflicts...

Significant changes to the treatment of charity tax are incoming with the Finance Bill 2025 – 2026 ('the Bill').

NCVO has launched a campaign encouraging charities to ‘consider moving investments away from businesses involved in the extraction, production, transportation, refining and marketing of fossil fuels.

The working party on the Fundraising Preference Service (the 'FPS') has published a discussion paper with proposals on how the service will be developed.

After a two-year review of the existing code, the Fundraising Regulator has issued a revised Code of Fundraising Practice which applies from 1 November 2025.

The Fundraising Regulator has published its annual report analysing complaints received in the period 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022. The report reviewed the Regulator's casework files...

In advance of the implementation of the new Code of Fundraising Practice in October, the Fundraising Regulator has published a ‘Mapping the code changes'

Recent analysis carried about by the Fundraising Regulator revealed that 60% of charities failed to fully explain their fundraising practices in their annual report.

Al-Fathia Global hit the headlines in March after The Sun published an article on its front page showing a volunteer posing with two masked gunmen.

There is an opportunity for non-charitable RPs to eliminate significant corporation tax liabilities.

The way in which charity trustees are recruited can make a huge difference to the quality of a charity’s performance.