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Please find below a list of link to the Charity Commission Northern Ireland's current guidance and reports:

Annual reporting

• Charity reporting and accounting: guidance summary
• Charity reporting and accounting: the essentials
• Trustees annual report and public benefit reporting
• Annual monitoring return guidance
• Receipts and payments accounts
• Example receipts and payments accounts
• Receipts and payments toolkit
• Accruals accounts
• Guidance for independent examiners
• Monitoring and compliance guidance - getting it right
• Charity reporting: interim annual reporting arrangements

Charity registration:

• Creating a PDF guidance
• Checklist of common errors on registration applications - and how to avoid them
• Document and information checklist
• Helper groups
• Model governing documents
• Overview of charity registration process - a step by step guide
• Purposes and public benefit toolkit
• Registering as a charity in Northern Ireland guidance
• Registering a new charity
• Schools and charity registration in Northern Ireland
• Screenshots of online registration application
• The public benefit requirement statutory guidance 
• Rural or urban regeneration guidance
• The 12 charitable purposes supporting documents
• Trustee declaration
• Update your charity's details using online services
• Workshop presentation

Regulatory guidance

• Dealing with concerns about charities guidance
• Guidance on how and when to report a concern to us - for trustees, employees and volunteers
• How to raise a concern about a charity guidance
• Internal conflicts
• Matters of material significance guidance
• Monitoring and compliance guidance
• Serious incident reporting: a guide for charity trustees
• Suspected or actual charity fraud
• Waiving trustee disqualification

Other guidance:

• Authorising transactions
• Attending formal meetings with the Commission
• Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008
• Charities and politics
• Charity incorporation
• Close or merge a charity
• Consents for charitable companies
• Developing a reserves policy
• Equality guidance for charities in Northern Ireland
• Fundraising
• Guidance on trustee expenses and payments
• Changing your charity’s name
• Changing your charity’s governing document
• Industrial and provident societies guidance
• Involving young people in running a charity 
• Making payments to trustees
• New powers for unincorporated charities
• Religious designation
• Making administrative changes to a charity guidance
• Running your charity: support for trustees on key aspects of running a charity effectively
• Starting a new charity
• Things to think about before setting up a new charity
• Trusteeship
• Using and understanding the register of charities