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About OSCR
Accessibility (of this site)
Accounting
Accounting Guidance: A Guide to Charity Accounts
Accounting Guidance: Receipts and Payments Accounts
Accounting Guidance: Fully Accrued Accounts
Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP)
Accounts: Receipts and Payments work pack (templates and guidance)
Accounts: Independent Examination - a Guide for Charity Trustees
Accounts: Independent Examination - a Guide for Independent Examiners
Amalgamating your charity with another body
Amending your charity's purposes
Annual reports and reviews (of OSCR)
Annual Returns (Annual reporting)
Annual Returns: Guidance on completing an online annual return
Application for Approval of a Charity Reorganisation Scheme: Application form*
Application for Approval of a Restricted Funds Reorganisation*
Application for Consent to Amalgamate a Charity with Another Body*
Application for Consent to Amend the Constitution (as far as it relates to its purposes) of a Charity: Application Form*
Application for Consent to Apply to Court in Relation to Particular Actions*
Application for Consent to Change the Name of your Charity: Application form*
Application for Consent to Wind-up or Dissolve a Charity (non-SCIO): Application form*
Application for Transfer of SCIO’s Undertaking: Application form*
Application to become a charity
Application to dissolve an insolvent SCIO: Application form and guidance notes
Application to dissolve a solvent SCIO: Application form and guidance notes
Applying to court to amend your charity's charitable purposes, or to amalgamate, or to wind up
Apply to be a charity
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B
Becoming a charity
Being a Charity in Scotland
Benevolent fundraising Guide
British Sign Language plan
C
Carbon management and climate change
Changes to Scottish charity law (2023 Act)
Changing your charity's legal form
Changing your charity's name
Charities (About Scottish charities)
Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005
Charities (Regulation and Administration) (Scotland) Act 2023
Charity law in Scotland
Charity Register Search
Charity Register Download
Charity Test: Guidance
Checklist for charity trustees - protecting charitable status
Complain about OSCR
Complain about a charity
Complaining About OSCR: A guide for complainants
Complaints Handling Procedure
Concerns about charities
Conflict of interests (for charity trustees)
Constitutions of bodies established under English law applying for charitable status in Scotland: Briefing note
Consultations
Consultation and participation strategy
Contact OSCR
Cross-border charity regulation in Scotland: Guidance
Crown copyright
D
Data Protection and Privacy Policy
Data Protection Policy document
E
Elected Members information
English and Welsh charities
Equalities and Diversity (of OSCR)
Equality Policy of OSCR
Equality guidance
Exempt fundraising promoters list
F
Facebook page
FAQs
Former charities
Freedom of Information (FOI)
Freedom of Information: OSCR Guide to information
Functions (of OSCR)
Fundraising
Fundraising guidance for charity trustees
G
Glossary of terms
Good Governance
Grant Giving: Brief guide
H
Help and advice for Scottish charities
Highest income charities
How we regulate
I
Incorporation - changing your charity's legal form
Incorporation: Guidance
Incorporation to SCIO: Accounts Guide
Independent Examiner's Report templates
Inquiry guidance (How OSCR deals with concerns and inquiries)
Inquiry reports
Investment Guidance
J
K
L
Latest charities
Law – Charity law in Scotland
Legal form - changing your charity's legal form
Legal forms factsheet
Legislation that links to OSCR's work
Lessons Learned Reports
LinkedIn
Logo for registered charities
M
Making changes to your charity
Managing a charity
Managing trustees
Memoranda of understanding
Monthly expenditure reports (of OSCR)
N
News
Newsletter – Sign up
Notices and alerts
Notices of resolution for charitable companies template
Notices of resolution for registered societies or community benefit societies
Notification of Changes Made to your Charity: Form
O
Online application to become a charity: Guidance
Online Services - How to use OSCR Online
Online Services - Sign in to OSCR Online
OSCR Annual reports and reviews
OSCR Board
OSCR Corporate and Business plans
OSCR Functions
OSCR Organisational Chart
OSCR Performance Indicators
OSCR Senior Management
OSCR's work in action
Our Work
P
Performance Indicators (of OSCR)
Preparing for your application to become a charity
Principal contact details - how to update using OSCR Online
Privacy Policy
Public Charitable Collections: Note
Publicising charitable status
Q
R
Raise a concern
Receipts and payments accounts
Registration Logo
Regulatory Reform (Scotland) Act 2014
Reorganisation guidance
Reorganisation: Reorganisation in Scotland newspaper notice required text
Reporting of relevant matters of interest to UK charity regulators
Representation: How to make a representation
Reserves: Charity Reserves Guidance
Resolution to amend the constitution of a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) Template
Restricted funds reorganisation
Review procedures
S
Safeguarding guidance
Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO)
SCIOs: A Guide
SCIO Dissolutions and Sequestrations
SCIOs: Register of Trustees Template
SCIOs: Transfer of a SCIO's undertakings
SCIOs: Working with SCIOs
Scottish Charity Register Search
Scottish Regulators' Strategic Code of Practice
Search
Search the Scottish Charity Register
Service Standards
Social Enterprise Guidance
SORP Committee
Strategies
Support available for charities
T
Templates: Accounts
Thinking of becoming a charity?
Transfer of a SCIO's undertakings
Trading guidance
Trustee Annual Report templates
Trustee Declaration Form
Trustee duties
Trustee Guidance: Guidance and good practice
Trustee information and guidance pack
Trustee remuneration
Trustees' Annual Reports: Guidance and good practice
Twitter
U
V
Values (of OSCR)
Village Halls: Guidance for Village Halls governed by a Deed of Trust
W
Waiver of disqualification as a charity trustee: Application form
WhatsApp - OSCR's channel
Whistleblowing to OSCR
Winding up or dissolving your charity
Who’s In Charge: Control and Independence in Scottish Charities
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