A to Z of Commission guidance
Below is a list of all the Commission’s guidance available to download. Some of this guidance is several years old, and we are working to review and update it as soon as possible. If you need help to access a document please email admin@charitycommissionni.org.uk and tell us what format you need so we can consider how to help.
Annual reporting
- Annual reporting
- Annual monitoring return screenshots - AMR for charities with income of 10k or less
- Annual monitoring return screenshots - AMR for charities with income of between £10001and £250k
- Annual monitoring return screenshots - AMR for charities with income of more than £250k
- Charity reporting and accounting: guidance summary
- Charity reporting and accounting: the essentials
- Developing a reserves policy
- Trustees annual report and public benefit reporting
- Public benefit toolkit - reporting public benefit in the trustees annual report
- How to complete the annual monitoring return (AMR) - 10 minute guide
- Receipts and payments accounts
- Example receipts and payments accounts
- Receipts and payments toolkit
- Accruals accounts
- Guide for independent examiners
- Independent examination of charity accounts: example reports
- Monitoring and compliance guidance - getting it right
- Logging onto My Charity Login (Online Services) helpsheet
Charity registration
- Charity registration
- Creating a PDF guidance
- Document and information checklist
- Helper groups
- Model governing documents
- Purposes and public benefit toolkit
- Registering as a charity in Northern Ireland guidance
- Schools and charity registration in Northern Ireland
- Screenshots of online registration application
- The public benefit requirement statutory guidance
- The 12 charitable purposes supporting documents
- Trustee declaration
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Regulation of charities
- Concerns about charities
- How to raise a concern about a charity
- Dealing with concerns about charities
- 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
- Whistleblowing -Making a public interest disclosure guide
Additional guidance
- Authorising transactions
- Attending formal meetings with the Commission
- Charity incorporation
- Consents for charitable companies
- Equality guidance for charities in Northern Ireland
- Fundraising
- Changing your charity’s name
- Changing your charity’s governing document
- Community benefit societies guidance
- Making payments to trustees
- Making administrative changes to a charity guidance
- New powers for unincorporated charities
- Publishing our decisions policy
- Religious designation
- Running your charity: support for trustees on key aspects of running a charity effectively
- Starting a new charity
- Using and understanding the register of charities