Charity Commission for Northern Ireland

Charity Commission for Northern Ireland

Charity Commission for Northern Ireland
257 Lough Road
BT66 6NQ
United Kingdom

The Charity Commission for Northern Ireland is the independent regulator of charities in Northern Ireland, responsible for ensuring Northern Ireland has a dynamic and well governed charities sector in which the public can have confidence.

Our aims

  • Public confidence: To increase public trust and confidence in charities.
  • Public benefit: To promote awareness and understanding of the operation of the public benefit requirement.
  • Compliance: To promote compliance by charity trustees with their legal obligations in exercising control and management of the administration of their charities.
  • Charitable resources: To promote the effective use of charitable resources.
  • Accountability: To enhance the accountability of charities to donors, beneficiaries and the public.
  • Delivery: To manage the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland as an effective and efficient non departmental public body.

Charity Commission for Northern Ireland's Content

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Charity Commission for Northern Ireland

A new traffic light display, which will indicate if a charity has submitted their accounts and reports to the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland on time, is being rolled out on the register of charities.
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Charity Commission for Northern Ireland

The Charity Commission for Northern Ireland is taking a step closer to an open charity registration process by phasing out what is known as the “combined list”.
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Charity Commission for Northern Ireland

An open call for charity representatives to join the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland’s stakeholder engagement forum has been issued this week.
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Charity Commission for Northern Ireland

Meet some of Northern Ireland’s Charity Commissioners and get an in-depth look at the work of the regulator at the Commission’s annual public meeting 2022.
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Charity Commission for Northern Ireland

Charities with an annual reporting deadline of 31 October 2022 have less than two weeks to submit their annual return to the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland.
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Charity Commission for Northern Ireland

The Commission is pleased to announce that it will be back on the road again, with its annual public meeting to be held from 10am to noon on Wednesday morning, 16 November 2022.
Dates:
16 November 2022
Lisburn
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Charity Commission for Northern Ireland

As part of its work to prepare charities for the changes which will be brought in by the new Charities Act (NI) 2022, the Commission has issued emails to some 7,000 charity contacts asking them to ensure their trustees’ contact details are up to date.
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Charity Commission for Northern Ireland

Did you know that one of the biggest factors influencing the public's trust and confidence in charities is that the organisation does what it says it will?
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Charity Commission for Northern Ireland

New research into public trust and confidence in Northern Ireland’s charities will be launched by the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland next month.
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Charity Commission for Northern Ireland

Over 100 charity trustees have been ordered by the Charity commission for Northern Ireland to submit their charity’s accounts and reports – or face the consequences.

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Type of Organisation

VCSE

Team

  • Shirley Kernan
  • Sinead Glackin