Articles and guides for charity teams

What UK GDPR requires of charities: lawful bases, when you can contact supporters without consent, and how to handle donor and beneficiary data responsibly.

What the Fundraising Regulator does, how registration and the Fundraising Badge work, and where charities most often fall short on the fundraising code.

A practical map of charity fundraising compliance: the Code of Fundraising Practice, data protection law, and the rules for events, lotteries and collections.

Guide for UK charities to embed digital accessibility governance in content workflows with ownership, checks, remediation tracking, and leadership reporting.

A plain comparison of the Charitable Incorporated Organisation and the charitable trust: liability, reporting, control, and which fits your charity best.

How UK charities handle VAT partial exemption: standard and special methods, de minimis tests, and trustee controls that prevent HMRC errors in returns.

What a charity trustee actually does, the six core duties the Charity Commission expects, when a trustee can be paid, and how to carry the role responsibly.

What the Charities SORP is, who has to follow it, how accruals accounting differs from receipts and payments, and what the framework requires of charity accounts.

Trustee guide to 2026 SORP focus: clearer narrative disclosure, reserves clarity, fund-note consistency, and practical preparation steps before year-end.