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A new Charities SORP information sheet applicable to large charities has been published on carbon reporting.

The Charity Commission has confirmed that charities can use their reserves to help them to cope with the Covid-19 situation.

The charity tribunal has given the Charity Commission permission to appeal to the upper tribunal in the case of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church St Mary of Debre Tsion.

The Charity Commission investigates the handling of an identity fraud perpetrated against a charity’s partner organisation in Uganda that resulted in a £30,000 loss to the charity.

The Charity Commission recently announced two consultations, the first on its new powers to disqualify individuals from acting as trustees or being in senior management positions...

The Charity Commission has launched a consultation about changes to statements of recommended practice (SORP) as a result of changes made to UK accounting standards.

The report gives an overview of the charity sector at the end of 2024. The Commission has reported that there were 170,755 charities registered...

The Commission first opened a regulatory compliance investigation into Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Britain in July 2013.

Peers had questioned the public benefit of charitable independent schools and argued that many of them could do more to share their facilities for sports, music and the art with maintained schools.

The Charity Commission has welcomed findings that public trust in UK charities is at its highest since 2014.

Last year, the Government published its interim response to Lord Hodgson’s Report on his review of the operation of the Charities Act 2006.

Many employers had hoped that the Coalition Government would rethink plans to remove the default retirement age of 65, but it has recently been confirmed that the change will still go ahead.

Charities are exempt from SDLT on purchases of property which they are to use either in their charitable work or to create ‘profits’ to fund their charitable work.

A charity which reclaimed £155,213 on a donation through the Gift Aid scheme has been ordered to reimburse HMRC.

The recent High Court case of Hoggarth v Bowler [2025] EWHC 1077 (Ch) has brought further clarity on the statutory requirements which apply to disposals of charity land. In this case...

COVID-19 has had a huge impact on the charities sector. Charitable donations have fallen drastically and, with cash flow restricted, it is becoming increasingly important that charities look at...

The Scottish Government today announced that a fourth round of funding for youth projects under the CashBack for Communities scheme is now open, with a funding pot of £2.5m, split across all local authority areas.