Prepare a trustees' annual report for your charity
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What to put in your trustees' annual report, depending on what type of accounts your charity prepares.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 6
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Governance & assurance
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
What to put in your trustees' annual report, depending on what type of accounts your charity prepares. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- About trustees' annual reports
- Reports for charities preparing receipts and payment accounts
- Reference and administrative details
- Structure, governance and management
- Objectives and activities
- Achievement and performance
- A financial review
- Funds held as a holding trustee on behalf of others
- Reports for charities preparing accruals accounts
- Information on fundraising practices
- Report on your charity's public benefit
- Including personal information in your annual report and accounts
- Using electronic signatures
- Further guidance
Source and licence
The Charity Commission
AttributionThe Charity Commission, ‘Prepare a trustees' annual report for your charity’ (updated 16 September 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