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ByThe Charity Commissioncedar_orbit_c3ed0d

Read about your trustee duties when making grants to charities and other organisations, including situations where you need to take extra care.

Adapted edition

Charity governance
Document type
Reference Guide
Format
DOCX
Pages
7
Language
English
Version
1.0
Updated
2026-09-16
Category
Governance & assurance
Licence
Open Government Licence v3.0
Description

Read about your trustee duties when making grants to charities and other organisations, including situations where you need to take extra care. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.

Contents
  • Your trustee duties
  • Only make grants for your charity's purposes
  • Set appropriate grant-making processes
  • Delegating your decisions
  • Make checks on organisations before giving grants
  • Take reasonable steps to assess risks
  • Set grant terms and conditions
  • You can give unrestricted grants to certain charities
  • Monitor your charity's grants
  • What to do if something goes wrong
  • Report on your charity's grants
  • Take extra care before making grants to organisations that are not charities
  • How to check if an organisation is a charity
  • Organisations that are charities in other jurisdictions
  • What to do before making a grant to an organisation that is not a charity
  • When the Charity Commission will become involved
Source and licence
Making grants to charities and other organisations

The Charity Commission

Original source OGL-UK-3.0

AttributionThe Charity Commission, ‘Making grants to charities and other organisations’ (updated 3 June 2026), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.

Version history
  • v1.016/09/2026
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