The Commission publishes guidance, not templates. So charities copy a £100m charity's policy they can't run, or write one too thin to meet the duty. Ours show what a charity your size must cover, what larger charities add, and what people get wrong.
How a policy goes from this page into how your charity is actually run.
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A safeguarding policy you can actually run, sized for your charity. It covers what every charity must do, what larger charities add, and the mistakes that get charities into trouble. This is a starting point, not legal advice.
Open template →A right-sized whistleblowing policy that tells workers and volunteers how to raise a serious concern, protects them from reprisal, and points them to the Charity Commission and other regulators when they cannot raise it internally.
Open template →A complaints policy sized to your charity: enough to meet the Code of Fundraising Practice and satisfy the regulators, without a corporate three-stage process a small charity cannot run. It is a starting point, not legal advice.
Open template →A right-sized volunteer policy for UK charities: what every charity that involves volunteers must cover, what larger charities add, and the mistakes that accidentally turn volunteers into workers.
Open template →A right-sized equality, diversity and inclusion policy template for UK charities: a two-page version that meets the Equality Act 2010 duty for small charities, with monitoring, training and reporting sections larger charities add.
Open template →A health and safety policy sized to your charity: what every charity must manage, why the written-policy duty starts at five employees, and what bigger charities add.
Open template →A right-sized internal financial controls policy for UK charities, grounded in Charity Commission CC8, that a small charity can run in full while larger charities add delegation, assets and audit layers.
Open template →A reserves policy that sets a target justified by your actual risks, not a number copied from somewhere. Right-sized for your charity, with the mistakes trustees make most. It's a starting point, not legal advice.
Open template →A right-sized policy for how a UK charity reimburses trustee expenses and the strict legal limits on paying trustees, scaled from small volunteer boards up to large charities. It is a starting point to adapt, not legal advice.
Open template →A plain-English, right-sized fundraising policy template for UK charities that meets trustees' legal duties and the Fundraising Regulator's Code of Fundraising Practice, scaled from small charities up to large.
Open template →A data protection and privacy policy sized for your charity: the plain-English clauses every charity must have to meet the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, plus the extra clauses larger charities add. No 30-page manual you cannot run.
Open template →How to identify and report a serious incident to the Charity Commission. A right-sized policy template for UK charities, with the extra steps larger charities add. This is a starting point to adapt, not legal advice.
Open template →A right-sized risk management policy template for UK charities: a small charity meets its trustees' duty of prudence with a simple risk register reviewed yearly and kept live at every meeting, while larger charities add scoring, owners, the annual-report risk statement and a risk framework.
Open template →A right-sized conflicts of interest policy for UK charities: how trustees declare interests, keep a register, step back from decisions they cannot be impartial on, and get proper authority before anyone connected to the charity benefits. Grounded in Charity Commission guidance CC29.
Open template →A free, right-sized document retention and disposal policy template for UK charities, with a starter retention schedule and the legal minimum keep-and-delete rules built in.
Open template →Meeting agendas, minutes, risk registers, induction checklists and more, all free.
These templates are general guidance for charities in England and Wales, not legal advice. They are a starting point to adapt. For anything specialist (safeguarding casework, employment, tax) speak to a suitably qualified adviser.
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