The Charity Commission has issued comprehensive updates to its various guidance notes to reflect the latest changes in the law introduced by the Charities Act 2022 – for which see Charities Act 2022: information about the changes being introduced.

The updated guidance notes are as follows:

• Change your charity structure.
• Collaborative working and mergers: an introduction (CC34).
• Dissatisfied with one of the Charity Commission’s decisions: how can we help you?
• Environmental responsibility for charities.
• Finding new trustees (CC30).
• How to close a charity.
• How to link charities.
• How to make changes to your charity’s governing document (CC36).
• How to merge charities.
• How to transfer charity assets to another charity.
• Permanent endowment: rules for charities.
• Register of merged charities.
• Royal Charter charities.
• Sales, leases, transfers or mortgages: what trustees need to know about disposing of charity land (CC28).
• Statutory inquiries into charities: guidance for charities (CC46).
• Trustee expenses and payments (CC11).
• Use of church halls for village hall and other charitable purposes (CC18).
• Village halls: answers to some common questions.
• Work with other charities.

In addition, Lexology has a helpful explainer on the latest tranche of changes brought in by the 2022 Act, here.