The Charity Commission is seeking to make life easier for charities by improving its online services. The Commission now allows organisations wishing to apply for registration as a charity to make their application via an online registration service.
All charities with income over £250,000 should have been issued with a password enabling them to register to use the new online services. This allows them to:
Other longer term plans include looking at ways of allowing annual accounts to be completed and submitted online. In the meantime charities registering to use the online services are able to send annual accounts as an email attachment.
Further information is available on the Charity Commission website at www.charity-commission.gov.uk
In a further recent move, the charity regulators in England and Wales and Scotland have signed a new agreement to reduce overlap of regulations and to help achieve greater consistency in the charity sector across the UK.